Founding Backend Engineer

Job Overview

We’re looking for a Founding Backend Engineer to join our team in San Francisco.

We’re building a database company. We need someone who enjoys hard problems, has large scope and agency, and has experience working in Clojure.

Our current stack includes client SDKs, a CLI tool, and a web GUI all written in Typescript; a Clojure server managing Web Socket connections, parsing queries, running permissions, and broadcasting novelty; and an AWS Aurora Postgres backend.

Key backend challenges include:

• Handling more than 10k connections and improving infrastructure to support 100k+ connections across queries, transactions, permissions, and reactive layers.
• Upgrading the permissions system based on Google CEL to a more powerful DSL similar to Figma’s solution.
• Enabling BYOP (Bring Your Own Postgres) so users can plug their own database into the sync engine.
• Delivering observability tools for developers to identify and tune problematic queries.

• Experience in Clojure is essential.

• Location:
  
  San Francisco, CA.
• In-person only; open to relocation only.
• Compensation: 150k – 200k base salary plus 0.5%‑2% equity and medical/dental/vision benefits.

We aim to be the infrastructure for all apps of the future.