Supalite Engineer

• Join the team building Supabase Lite, a lightweight TypeScript-native implementation of Supabase that runs interchangeably on SQLite and Postgres with PostgREST and Auth compatible APIs. • Work on a product built for AI builders and platform partners who need sub-second provisioning, a footprint small enough to run inside a sandbox, and an upgrade path to full Supabase. • Take on a founding role with a lot of agency on a small team, owning large areas end to end and making real decisions from day one.

• Have substantial backend or full-stack experience with strong fluency in TypeScript, having built or contributed to a backend system, framework, or developer platform before. • Be a strong generalist comfortable moving across the stack from API design to storage internals to infrastructure, picking up whatever the problem needs. • Read unfamiliar code without friction, studying reference implementations in other languages such as GoTrue in Go and PostgREST in Haskell and matching their behaviour in TypeScript. • Have a solid grounding in SQL and relational databases with the curiosity to dig into where Postgres and SQLite differ. • Have a bias toward compatibility and correctness, reaching for tests and specs to prove behaviour. • Think around corners, breaking complex systems down to the 20% that covers 80% of the need and making it run somewhere far smaller than it was designed for. • Care about developer experience including clean APIs, fast feedback loops, and tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing. • Be comfortable owning ambiguous, early-stage work and making sound calls that inform and define the spec. • Be comfortable working in public repositories on a remote, async team. • Communicate clearly in writing.

• Have experience with the Supabase stack specifically. • Bring experience building developer CLIs. • Have a track record of open-source maintenance. • Have experience building scale-to-zero hosted offerings or near-zero-cost infrastructure.

• Grow API compatibility with the Supabase client, keeping behaviour faithful to hosted Supabase and backed by conformance tests. • Bring more of the Supabase stack to SQLite. • Build and harden the path for upgrading a project from Supabase Lite to full Supabase. • Own the developer experience end to end including the CLI, local tooling, and docs. • Build and harden the hosted offering on a scale-to-zero, near-zero-cost footing, kept loosely coupled so the implementation can be swapped without a rewrite. • Work directly with design partners and turn real-world migration and integration friction into a sharper product. • Engage with the open-source community and contribute back to the broader Supabase stack.

• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the world. • Receive ESOP equity ownership in the company. • Get a tech allowance to set up your ideal work environment. • Receive 100% employer-covered health insurance with 80% coverage for dependents. • Attend annual company off-sites in a new city each year. • Work flexibly and asynchronously with full trust to manage your own time. • Receive a professional development allowance for courses, books, conferences, and learning. • Access a WeWork membership or co-working allowance usable anywhere in the world.

Supabase is the open-source Postgres development platform that 7M+ developers and thousands of enterprises depend on every day. Providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search, Supabase is born-remote and open-source-first with around 400 team members across 60+ countries. The company has raised over $1B including a $500M Series F.