About the role
About the team The Foundations team builds and evolves the application-level infrastructure that powers Hex. We own the shared backend systems, frameworks, and primitives that other teams depend on—helping the company move faster while maintaining reliability, performance, and security.
Our work spans APIs, realtime transport, storage frameworks, background processing, and internal tooling. Rather than shipping isolated features, we focus on creating durable systems that scale with the company and make product development easier for everyone.
About the role We’re looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help design, maintain, and evolve the core systems used across Hex. This role is centered on backend architecture and shared infrastructure, with responsibility for APIs, realtime communication, data access frameworks, job orchestration, and internal admin tooling.
You’ll work closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs, then turn common patterns into robust, reusable systems. You’ll help define standards, influence architecture, and raise the quality bar across the backend.
Frontend experience is helpful for understanding end-to-end workflows, but this role is primarily backend-focused.
Core Contributions You will help contribute to and evolve several foundational areas, including:
APIs GraphQL(schema design, performance, developer ergonomics) Authentication & authorization(security, scalability, correctness) Multiplayer & collaboration APIs(realtime state, concurrency) Transport WebSockets and realtime communication infrastructure Storage Frameworks Postgres (schema design, query optimization, migrations) S3, DynamoDB, Redis Job & Workflow Systems BullMQ and background job processing Temporal or similar workflow orchestration systems Internal Tooling Internal admin tools for debugging, operations, and customer support