Convex
Software Engineer, Product
About this role
Convex seeks a Software Engineer for their Product team to design and build customer-facing platforms, dashboards, integrations, and billing systems. You'll work directly with customers and leadership to shape product priorities while balancing technical excellence with business impact in a fast-growing startup.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain Convex's dashboard, integrations, billing services, and platform offerings
- Collaborate directly with customers and company leadership to define product roadmap and priorities
- Understand customer needs and business requirements to make informed tradeoff decisions
- Establish reliability practices and guidelines as the team and systems scale
- Write high-quality product and platform code across the stack
- Develop deep understanding of Convex systems and user requirements
What they're looking for
- Strong UX design sensibilities and ability to build intuitive interfaces
- Product thinking and prioritization skills
- Full-stack software development capabilities
- Systems architecture and clean code practices
- Customer empathy and ability to understand diverse user needs
- Startup scaling experience
- Deep technical problem-solving across multiple layers
- Understanding of live-site service requirements
Benefits
- Work in-person at San Francisco office
- Opportunity to work with experienced engineers from top tech companies
- Direct impact on product direction and customer success
- Collaborative and passionate team culture
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Convex
Convex builds a platform for developing and deploying agentic applications, providing backend infrastructure, APIs, and client libraries that prioritize developer experience and strong architecture. The company is hiring software engineers across AI, infrastructure, backend platform development, and product teams to scale their cloud platform and shape how developers build full-stack applications.
- Website
- convex.dev
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you built a user-facing feature or product. How did you approach understanding what your customers actually needed, and how did that shape what you built?
- Convex spans a large product surface area—dashboard, billing, integrations, logging, streaming, and more. How do you approach working across different layers of a stack, and can you give an example of when you had to go deep in an unfamiliar area?