Svix is a fast-growing startup building the future of server-to-server communication, starting with webhooks. We build high-quality, scalable, and fast infrastructure trusted by companies like Etsy, TaskRabbit, Brex, and the Fortune 500.
We have a top 1% product & team, our customers love us, and we are working towards building a generation defining developer infrastructure company.
To support our efforts, we have raised $11M from top investors including a16z and Y Combinator, along with founders and CTOs from companies like GitHub, Segment, Lookout, and Fly.io.
About the RoleWe're looking for a top performing Tech Lead to help scale our product and team. This role is about more than just writing great code, you'll make key technical decisions, tackle complex problems, and mentor engineers while ensuring we deliver a top-notch developer experience.
If you thrive in high-impact environments and want to build something meaningful with a team that moves fast, we'd love to chat.
If you are a top performer who wants to do the best job of their life surrounded by others doing the same, this is the place for you.
What You’ll DoDesign, 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).
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).
We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!
Hackers/OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. Checkout our OSS repo on Github.
Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix.
All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.
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What We Do
The enterprise ready webhooks sending service.
WHO IS SVIX FOR
Companies large and small looking to start sending webhooks or improve their existing webhooks sending system. Webhooks increase the usefulness and stickiness of your service, by letting your customers build integrations and workflow automations on top of it.
We work with companies of all sizes, and power the webhooks of 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅, 𝗟𝗼𝗯, 𝗟𝗧𝗦𝗘, 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗸, 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿 and many others.
HERE'S WHAT WE DO
Webhooks are a pain. Developers need to worry about deliverability, retries, monitoring and security.
Svix lets you build a state-of-the-art webhooks solution in minutes so you can focus on your business.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
“Adding Svix to the mix was definitely the right decision for us. In addition to happy customers, our engineers have their evenings back.“
— 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻, 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗼𝗯
“I very much appreciate how much time Svix saved us. We were able to get a webhooks MVP out in less than a day.“
— 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗻, 𝗖𝗧𝗢 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗸
“Webhooks were a struggle for us, and it's great that we no longer have to care about them.“
— 𝗚𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗱 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽
Lob recently wrote a blog post about their experience with Svix, check it out here: https://www.lob.com/blog/lob-webhooks-the-remix
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE?
Then please checkout out our website www.svix.com
Or check out our Github repository github.com/svix/svix-webhooks
