Supalite Engineer

Responsibilities

• Grow API compatibility with the Supabase client, keeping behavior 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: 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.

Requirements

• Substantial backend or full-stack experience with strong fluency in TypeScript.
• Built or contributed to a backend system, framework, or developer platform before.
• Strong generalist, comfortable moving across the stack from API design to storage internals to infrastructure.
• Read unfamiliar code without friction (e.g. reference implementations in Go and Haskell).
• Solid grounding in SQL and relational databases, with curiosity about differences between Postgres and SQLite.
• Bias toward compatibility and correctness; reach for tests and specs to prove behavior.
• Think around corners; look for simpler paths that fit smaller constraints.
• Care about developer experience: clean APIs, fast feedback loops, and tooling.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, early-stage work and making foundational decisions.
• Comfortable working in public repositories on a remote, async team.
• Communicate clearly in writing.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with the Supabase stack.
• Building developer CLIs.
• Track record of open-source maintenance.