Job Details

Overview

Full-Stack Engineer, Developer Experience — Full-Time — Distributed North America, Toronto, SF/Bay Area.

At Source, we aim to revolutionize developer data management for the open web. Our mission is to simplify data handling for edge devices, local-first software, and distributed infrastructures, allowing developers to unleash their creativity and build world-changing tools that realize the open web's full potential. We empower developers to create software and devices that seamlessly communicate, offer granular data control, and secure data cryptographically to ensure trust.

Salary: Minimum expected salary: $125,000 + equity

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the growth of the open-source developer ecosystem. You bring your expertise and commitment to excellence to help build a database that makes data easy for everyone.
• Develop, maintain, and ship an idiomatic set of language SDKs for the DefraDB API
• Develop and maintain the DefraDB CLI
• Work with the community of DefraDB users to understand their use cases and help create frictionless integrations with DefraDB, for their applications, and their development workflows
• Work with strategic partners in the modern application development ecosystem to advance developer experience for DefraDB
• A passion for working on complex technical products and exposure to topics such as distributed/decentralized systems, concurrency control, data replication, file systems, or NoSQL processing
• Experience building beautiful, idiomatic, and easy-to-use developer experiences, such as SDKs, CLIs, APIs, or UIs
• Interest in creating tools that maximally relieve developer pain in connecting to, operating
• Experience as an application developer and database user (e.g., Jamstack, serverless, or conventional web apps)
• Comfort with programming languages like Go, Rust, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript; polyglot programmers are preferred
• Familiarity with GraphQL language and tools
• Experience building front-end UI and tooling consumable by developers using React, Vue, or Angular
• Experience building collaborative relationships with colleagues and participating in code reviews
• Open Source software development and/or communities participation
• Ability to make pragmatic design tradeoffs balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
• 5+ years of relevant experience

Qualifications

• Proven track record in developing developer-facing tools and libraries (SDKs, CLIs, APIs, or UIs)
• Experience with distributed or edge computing topics
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; comfortable working with cross-functional teams
• Experience with Go, Rust, Java, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Familiarity with GraphQL and modern frontend frameworks
• Open Source contributor or community participant

In the first month, you will join your engineering team and start to learn about our production systems, software development workflow, and the architecture of DefraDB and complementary technologies. We offer technical training and mentorship to help you grow.