About the Role
We're looking for engineers to join the team building Supabase Lite, a lightweight, TypeScript-native implementation of Supabase. It runs interchangeably on SQLite and Postgres and ships a PostgREST and Auth compatible API, so applications written against @supabase/supabase-js work as-is. This is a role with a lot of agency where you will own large areas end to end and make real decisions from day one.
What You'll Be Responsible For
- 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.
You Might Be a Good Fit If You
- Have substantial backend or full-stack experience with strong fluency in TypeScript, and have built or contributed to a backend system, framework, or developer platform before.
- Are a strong generalist, comfortable moving across the stack from API design to storage internals to infrastructure.
- Read unfamiliar code without friction, including reference implementations in other languages like Go or Haskell, and match their behavior in TypeScript.
- Have a solid grounding in SQL and relational databases, and the curiosity to dig into where Postgres and SQLite differ.
- Have a bias toward compatibility and correctness, and reach for tests and specs to prove behavior.
- Care about developer experience: clean APIs, fast feedback loops, and tooling that makes the right thing the easy thing.
- Are comfortable owning ambiguous, early-stage work in a public repository on a remote, async team.
What We Offer
- Fully Remote: We hire globally with a co-working allowance.
- ESOP: Every team member receives equity ownership.
- Tech Allowance: Budget to set up your ideal work environment.
- Health Benefits: 100% coverage for employees and 80% for dependents.
- Annual Off-Sites: Yearly company-wide gatherings.
- Flexible Work: Async environment with trust in time management.
- Professional Development: Annual education allowance for courses, books, and conferences.