Supabase
Supalite Engineer
Employer explicitly allows international or location-independent remote work.
Worldwide
Employer listed it 2 months ago · Added 5 days ago
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Salary
Not stated
Location
Worldwide
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
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Remote flexibility
Work from anywhere
The employer explicitly allows candidates to work from anywhere in the world, with no stated country restriction.
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- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, Global"
- Job description states: "work from anywhere"
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About the role
About Supabase
Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth.
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. It exists because AI builders and platform partners need a database they can give to every prototype without the cost or the wait: sub-second provisioning, a footprint small enough to run inside a sandbox, and an upgrade path to full Supabase when an app graduates to production.
This is a role with a lot of agency. Small team, working product, patterns still to be set - you'll own large areas end to end and make real decisions from day one.
What You'll Be Responsible For
In this role, you'll:
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, and picking up whatever the problem needs
Read unfamiliar code without friction. A lot of the work means studying reference implementations in other languages, such as GoTrue in Go and PostgREST in Haskell, and matching 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
Think around corners. When everyone reaches for the standard playbook, you look for the simpler path that fits a smaller box — breaking a complex system down to the 20% that covers 80% of the need, then making it run somewhere far smaller than it was designed for
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 and making sound calls that inform and define the spec. This is a founding role on a brand-new team
Are comfortable working in public repositories on a remote, async team
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·We hire globally. We believe you can do your best work from anywhere. There are no Supabase offices, but we provide a WeWork membership or co-working allowance you can use anywhere in the world.
- ·Every team member receives ESOP (equity ownership) in the company. We want everyone to share in the upside of what we’re building together.
- ·Use this budget to set up your ideal work environment—laptop, monitor, headphones, or whatever helps you do your best work.
- ·Supabase covers 100% of health insurance for employees and 80% for dependents, wherever you are. Your wellbeing and your family’s health are important to us.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from anywhere, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Supabase, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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