Founding Backend Engineer at Instant

Instant is a real-time database you can use on the frontend. We give you the best of both Firebase and Supabase, a sync-engine with support for relations. This is the kind of tech that companies like Figma, Notion, and Linear build internally to power their products ( Try out the demo ) We’re looking for a founding backend engineer to join our team in San Francisco. We’re looking for someone who: Enjoys working on hard problems (we’re building a database company!) Wants large scope and plenty of agency Has experience working in Clojure Our current stack looks like so: We offer client SDKs, a CLI tool, and web GUI to interact with Instant. All written in Typescript We have a server written in Clojure for managing websocket connections, parsing queries, running permissions, and broadcasting novelty. All of which sits on top AWS Aurora Postgres Here are the kinds of problems on the back-end we want to solve next: We’re regularly handling >10k connections but will need to improve our infra across our query, transactions, permissions, and reactive layers to handle 100k connections and more. Upgrade our permissions system. Right now Instant’s permission system is based on Google CEL, sim