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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, Figma, Stubhub, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex 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 and employee handbook to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.
About the roleWe are looking for a Senior or Staff-level software engineer to join our Backend Platform team.
Our team is responsible for building and maintaining Hex's core compute platform, which serves as the fundamental engine for all code execution, SQL querying, and data processing across the Hex application. Our platform powers everything from the core notebook interface and published applications to the complex data capabilities required by our AI agents.
Our mission is twofold: to make the compute platform exceptionally easy to use, develop on, and monitor, while also ensuring it is blazingly fast and performant. Engineers on this team operate at the challenging and rewarding intersection of systems architecture, API design, and deep performance optimization.
What you will doOn the Backend Platform team you’ll work on projects with high technical complexity and spanning across the stack, from our backend data systems to the frontend of Hex’s collaborative notebook interface.
Here are some examples of the kinds of projects you might tackle:
Using DuckDB to enable seamless data interoperability between Python and SQL code written by our users or AI agents
Building intelligent caching systems to speed up customer data queries
Implementing a graph-based dependency framework for optimizing multi-step execution plans
Instrumenting complex, multi-language systems to identify performance bottlenecks
Building visualizations into the product to help users understand the performance characteristics of their code
6+ years of engineering experience working on complex, data-driven systems or applications
Expert-level understanding of Python, SQL, jupyter kernels, and/or data warehousing systems
Deeply informed on industry trends around data processing, databases, and performant data architectures
You love diving into highly complex codebases and have a passion for designing elegant abstractions that improve correctness and developer productivity
An inexhaustible desire to understand where every millisecond of time could be going
An instinct for strategic thinking and aligning with business and product goals while keeping a healthy balance of velocity and engineering excellence.
Experience working in a remote-first team and strong communication skills in this context.
This role is fully remote anywhere within the US Eastern timezone, with the option to work from our NYC office.
Our stackOur 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 - $295,000
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.
By submitting an application the candidate consents to the use of their personal information in accordance with the Hex Privacy policy: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/trust/privacy-policy.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of engineering experience working on complex, data-driven systems or applications
- Expert-level understanding of Python, SQL, Jupyter kernels, and/or data warehousing systems
- Deep knowledge of industry trends in data processing, databases, and performant data architectures
- Experience working in a remote-first team
- Strong communication skills in a remote-first context
Hex Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Official materials and benefits profiles consistently reference comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with mental-health support and FSAs also noted. Some listings additionally cite very high employer premium contributions on the base plan.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits information highlights fully paid parental leave (e.g., 12 weeks, or 16 for the gestational parent) with flexible return-to-work support. Family-planning benefits such as Carrot with a quoted lifetime allowance are also described.
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Retirement Support — Multiple profiles note a 401(k) with a company match (commonly cited up to 4%). This retirement support is presented as part of a broader market-benchmarked total-rewards package.
Hex Insights
What We Do
Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew of engineers, designers, and data aficionados. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details, and we would love your help bringing them to life. Hex has raised over $100m from great VCs and angels, giving us many years of runway and the ability to pay competitive salaries, offer great benefits, and provide meaningful equity.
Why Work With Us
We’re a team of builders. We spend our days designing and developing beautiful products, growing and supporting our user base, and helping each other succeed and learn. To do that, we've developed a culture focused on quality, craft, and speed -- with very few meetings, bias toward action, and taking care of each other through feedback and support.
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Hex Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We have a truly hybrid workforce, with many employees working fully remotely, and others coming into one of our two offices (SF or NYC) 2-3 days per week.
