Remote Lite Platform Engineer (TypeScript)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

ESOP

Tech allowance

Health benefits

Annual offsites

Flexible work

Education allowance

Job summary

Supabase is seeking engineers to build Lite, a lightweight, TypeScript‑native implementation that runs on SQLite and Postgres, with a PostgREST and Auth compatible API. You will own large areas end to end in a small team and make real decisions from day one.

This role offers substantial autonomy, collaboration with design partners, and opportunities to contribute to the open‑source ecosystem while shipping a scalable developer platform remotely.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend or full‑stack experience with strong fluency in TypeScript.
• Solid grounding in SQL and relational databases.
• Experience designing APIs and developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Grow API compatibility with the company client, keeping behavior faithful to hosted the company and backed by conformance tests
• Bring more of the company stack to SQLite
• Build and harden the path for upgrading a project from the company Lite to full the company
• 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 the company stack.

Skills

TypeScript

Backend development

Full‑stack

SQL

Job description

Supabase is seeking engineers to build Lite, a lightweight, TypeScript‑native implementation that runs on SQLite and Postgres, with a PostgREST and Auth compatible API. You will own large areas end to end in a small team and make real decisions from day one.

This role offers substantial autonomy, collaboration with design partners, and opportunities to contribute to the open‑source ecosystem while shipping a scalable developer platform remotely.