Supalite Engineer

Job description

ABOUT the employer the employer is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers. We provide a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. All services are deeply integrated and designed for growth. ABOUT THE ROLE We're looking for engineers to join the team building the employer Lite https://www.npmjs.com/package/@the employer/lite, a lightweight, TypeScript-native implementation of the employer. It runs interchangeably on SQLite and Postgres and ships a PostgREST and Auth compatible API, so applications written against @the employer/the employer-js work as-is. It exists because AI builders and platform partners need a database they can give to every prototype without the cost or the wait: sub-second provisioning, a footprint small enough to run inside a sandbox, and an upgrade path to full the employer when an app graduates to production. This is a role with a lot of agency. Small team, working product, patterns still to be set - you'll own large areas end to end and make real decisions from day one. WHAT YOU'LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR In this role, you'll: - Grow API compatibility with the the employer client, keeping behavior faithful to hosted the employer and backed by conformance tests - Bring more of the the employer stack to SQLite - Build and harden the path for upgrading a…