# Supalite Engineer

**Company:** [Supabase](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/supabase)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Skills:** TypeScript, SQL, Postgres, sqlite, postgrest, API Design, cli, Open Source
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Build Supabase Lite, a lightweight TypeScript-native implementation that runs on SQLite and Postgres with full client compatibility. Grow API compatibility, own developer tooling/CLI/docs, harden upgrade paths and hosted scale-to-zero offering as an early team member with high agency.

## Job Description

## 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.

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