软件工程师，基础架构
Software Engineer, Foundations
关于Hex
Hex正在组建一支由建设者组成的团队，致力于让每个人都能成为数据专家。我们的平台解决了当今数据和分析工具中的关键痛点，并使任何人都能通过自然语言探索数据，无需编码或在有代码的情况下进行操作，且在可信的上下文中进行。Ramp、Figma、Stubhub、Anthropic和Gamma等数千家客户喜欢Hex，因为其美观的用户界面、代理功能和无限的灵活性。
Hex已从Sequoia、a16z、Snowflake和Amplify等领先投资者筹集了超过1亿美元。我们在旧金山和纽约设有办公中心，同时在美国和英国还有远程员工。我们是一支高自主性的团队，快速交付并享受其中的乐趣。查看我们的Hex简介视频和员工手册，了解更多关于在Hex工作的内容。
关于团队
基础架构团队构建并发展支持Hex的应用级基础设施。我们负责其他团队依赖的共享后端系统、框架和基本组件，帮助公司更快地推进，同时保持可靠性、性能和安全性。
我们的工作涵盖API、实时传输、存储框架、后台处理和内部工具。我们不专注于孤立的功能，而是专注于创建可随着公司成长的持久系统，使产品开发对每个人来说都更容易。
关于职位
我们正在寻找一名高级后端软件工程师，协助设计、维护和演进Hex中使用的核心系统。该职位以后端架构和共享基础设施为中心，负责API、实时通信、数据访问框架、任务编排和内部管理工具。
你将与产品工程团队紧密合作，了解他们的需求，然后将常见模式转化为稳健、可重用的系统。你将帮助制定标准，影响架构，并提高整个后端的质量标准。
前端经验有助于理解端到端的工作流程，但此职位主要关注后端。
核心贡献
你将参与并推动多个基础领域的演进，包括：
APIs
- GraphQL（schema设计、性能、开发者体验）
- 认证与授权
- 服务间通信
- API网关
- 性能优化
Realtime Communication
- WebSocket协议
- 消息队列
- 实时数据同步
- 状态管理
Data Access Frameworks
- 数据库抽象层
- 查询优化
- 缓存策略
- 数据一致性
Job Orchestration
- 异步任务调度
- 工作流引擎
- 失败恢复机制
- 资源管理
Internal Tooling
- 管理控制台
- 日志与监控
- 配置管理
- 自动化部署
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ABOUT HEX
Hex is growing our team of builders on a mission to make everyone a data person. Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp https://hex.tech/customers/ramp/, Figma https://hex.tech/customers/figma/, Stubhub https://hex.tech/customers/stubhub/, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex https://www.g2.com/products/hex-tech-hex/reviews for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility.
Hex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAXsnrNlavk and employee handbook https://www.notion.so/hexhq/Hex-Handbook-9fff0d42860e4f70815c599e0d1664d6 to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Foundations team builds and evolves the application-level infrastructure that powers Hex. We own the shared backend systems, frameworks, and primitives that other teams depend on—helping the company move faster while maintaining reliability, performance, and security.
Our work spans APIs, realtime transport, storage frameworks, background processing, and internal tooling. Rather than shipping isolated features, we focus on creating durable systems that scale with the company and make product development easier for everyone.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help design, maintain, and evolve the core systems used across Hex. This role is centered on backend architecture and shared infrastructure, with responsibility for APIs, realtime communication, data access frameworks, job orchestration, and internal admin tooling.
You’ll work closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs, then turn common patterns into robust, reusable systems. You’ll help define standards, influence architecture, and raise the quality bar across the backend.
Frontend experience is helpful for understanding end-to-end workflows, but this role is primarily backend-focused.
CORE CONTRIBUTIONS
You will help contribute to and evolve several foundational areas, including:
APIS
- GraphQL(schema design, performance, developer ergonomics)
- Authentication & authorization(security, scalability, correctness)
- Multiplayer & collaboration APIs(realtime state, concurrency)
TRANSPORT
- WebSockets and realtime communication infrastructure
STORAGE FRAMEWORKS
- Postgres (schema design, query optimization, migrations)
- S3, DynamoDB, Redis
JOB & WORKFLOW SYSTEMS
- BullMQ and background job processing
- Temporal or similar workflow orchestration systems
INTERNAL TOOLING
- Internal admin tools for debugging, operations, and customer support
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and build backend frameworks and services used across the company
- Own and evolve critical shared systems, including APIs, realtime transport, and job orchestration
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, and security of foundational backend infrastructure
- Partner with product teams to turn recurring needs into shared abstractions
- Lead technical design discussions and help set architectural direction
- Drive refactors, migrations, and system upgrades that reduce long-term complexity
- Improve internal tooling to support debugging, operations, and customer-facing workflows
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to strong engineering standards and practices
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus
- Experience working with Typescript/Node.js and SQL
- Experience building and maintaining shared backend systems or frameworks used by multiple teams
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, and asynchronous workflows
- Experience working with relational databases and data modeling at scale
- Familiarity with background job systems, queues, or workflow orchestration tools
- Comfort operating and evolving production systems over time
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, leverage-oriented mindset
BONUS POINTS
- Experience with Python
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL, WebSockets, BullMQ, or Temporal
- Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, logging)
- Background in data platforms, developer tools, or collaborative systems
- Experience with frontend technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) for end-to-end context
- Open-source contributions, especially in backend or infrastructure projects
OUR STACK
Our product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. Our frontend is built with Typescript and React, using a combination of Apollo GraphQL and Redux for managing application state and data. On the backend, we also use Typescript to power an Express/Apollo GraphQL server that interacts with Postgres, Redis, and Kubernetes to manage our database and Python kernels. Our backend is tightly integrated with our infrastructure and CI/CD, where we use a combination of Terraform, Helm, and AWS to deploy and maintain our stack.
The salary range for this role is: $198,750 - $265,000
In addition to our unique culture, Hex proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible paid time off.
The salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for growth, internal fairness & parity, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our Recruiting team will be able to provide more details during the interview process.
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