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Svix· Engineering
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San Francisco (On-Site)$190k - $210kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Svix is seeking a Tech Lead to scale the product and team, making key technical decisions, mentoring engineers, and delivering a high-quality developer experience. The role combines hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced backend-focused environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy high-quality backend code in a fast-paced environment.
  • Develop and scale new products and new product features while ensuring stability and performance.
  • Own technical challenges, making decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Lead the team through management, sprint planning, mentoring, and execution.
  • Optimize infrastructure, databases, and system architecture for high availability and efficiency.
  • This role is a player-coach (we expect this person to spend ~80% of the time coding).

Qualifications

  • Experience designing and building high-scale backend systems.
  • Strong technical, architectural, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Good “taste” for software and API design.
  • Proven ability to lead teams, organize projects, and drive execution.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar leadership role.
  • Experience with Rust, Postgres, and Redis (or ability to ramp up quickly).

Skills

Required:backend design and developmentsystem architectureleadership and mentorship
Nice to have:RustPostgresRedis

Benefits

  • Health insurance (including vision and dental)
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • paid sick time
  • paid personal time off
  • Equity packages
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Svix

Enterprise ready webhooks service, open-source and in the cloud

Svix is the enterprise ready and open source webhooks service. Webhooks are a pain. Developers need to worry about deliverability, retries, monitoring and security. All of which are different for webhooks compared to the rest of the stack. We turn all of that into a simple API call. Svix is sending billions of webhooks for customers both large (Fortune 500) and small (startups), and is backed by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Aleph, and founders and CTOs of companies such as Github, PagerDuty, Segment and Lookout.

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