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title: 'Head of Developer Experience at Convex'
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# Head of Developer Experience at Convex

- **Company:** Convex
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/dcac548c-ce46-484c-9577-ef3a274b07e0

## Job description

Application demands are rapidly changing while the experience to design and operate infrastructure is rapidly diminishing. A new platform abstraction is needed to support agentic development, agentic applications, and an entirely new set of application workloads. We think Convex is the team and platform best placed to define this abstraction.

Convex works differently from the tools people are used to. The right way to build with it isn't always obvious, and increasingly the developer learning it is an agent rather than a person. Helping people and their agents make sense of something this new is still the domain of very talented humans, and we want you to be one of them.

The Team: https://convex.dev/about-us

Convex has assembled a team of engineers who have built and designed some of the largest platforms in the world, with exabytes of data, millions of transactions per second, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. We are a group of friendly, collaborative, and passionate people who love working in-person together in our office in San Francisco. We hire primarily in SF but have a few experienced folks working remotely in certain situations.

The Role:

We're looking for a Head of Developer Experience to own how developers and agents become great at building on Convex. You'll set the strategy, hold the point of view, and lead the team behind it. The docs, the writing, the developer narrative, and the advocacy your team takes to the community all flow from one thing: a real understanding of the product and a clear opinion on how people should build on it.

Some weeks you'll go deep with the engineering team on something we just shipped and turn it into docs a developer, or the agent writing their code, can pick up easily. Other weeks you'll step back to decide what story we're telling developers this quarter, where the docs are falling short, and what your team should focus on next. The best person for this is someone who's genuinely excited to move between all of it.

What You'll Do:

- Set the strategy and point of view for how developers and agents learn to be successful on Convex.
- Lead and grow the developer experience team, and build out documentation as a function over time.
- Own the Convex docs https://docs.convex.dev/home and the information architecture behind them, ensuring that Convex stays legible from a developer's first day to their most expert work, for humans and agents alike.
- Craft the writing and developer narrative that shape how people understand Convex, from our blog stack.convex.dev to the way we explain what we ship.
- Work closely with engineering and the founders to turn what we build into things people can learn from.

What Excites Us:

- You've written developer docs or technical content that real developers relied on, and you have the work to show for it.
- You've led a team before, ideally one doing developer-facing or content work, and know how to grow people and help them do their best work.
- You can code, or read it closely enough to keep every example honest.
- Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and their agents need.
- Interest in working in-person at Convex's office in SF.

## IDEAL CHARACTERISTICS

This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for deep thinking and clear communication, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.

CAN THEY ACTUALLY WRITE?

Writing is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.

DO THEY HAVE A POINT OF VIEW?

The best developer content and the best developer experience both come from someone who has a clear idea of what good looks like and pushes for it. We want someone who can look at how developers build on Convex today, form a strong opinion about how they should, and then build the docs, the writing, and the team to make that real.

CAN THEY GO DEEP TECHNICALLY?

You don't have to be the strongest engineer in the room, but you do have to engage seriously with the technical material and earn the team's trust. Convex is genuinely deep, and hand-waving doesn't survive contact with a skeptical developer. It shouldn't survive contact with you first.

CAN THEY BUILD AND LEAD A TEAM?

This is a leadership role, so a big part of the job is getting great work out of other people, not just producing it yourself. That means hiring well, giving people real ownership, developing their judgment, and caring more about what the team ships than what you could have written on your own. The best leaders we've worked with are the ones who make everyone around them better.

DO THEY VALUE SIMPLICITY AND PRAGMATISM?

We have a bias toward doing fewer things better. A lot of this job is telling what actually matters apart from what's merely nice to have, pointing the team at the former, and shipping it rather than polishing forever. It's a startup, and knowing what to leave undone matters as much as knowing what to build.

DO THEY BRING ENERGY TO THE ROOM?

Startups are hard. Building something from nothing is hard. Driving forward progress despite uncertainty is hard. Shitting on stuff is easy and just brings everyone else down. We have a high bar for quality but also a high bar for being constructive, positive, and excited about making things better. We're meant to be having fun here.

- The salary range for this full-time position is > $250,000 + equity + benefits

## About Convex

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Convex provides a reactive backend-as-a-service platform that combines a database, server functions, and real-time sync, enabling web developers to build full-stack applications without complex backend engineering.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jamie Turner (CEO) and James Cowling (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS), Cloud Infrastructure, Database, Web Development Platform
- **Target customers**: Web developers and engineering teams building full-stack applications (B2B, developer tools)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet and who gets to build it. We aim to empower web developers to build fast, reliable, and dynamic apps without complex backend engineering or database administration." [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **[Convex Platform]**: A reactive backend platform that provides an ACID-compliant database, real-time data sync, server functions, cron jobs, file storage, vector search, and built-in authentication — all expressed in pure TypeScript. It integrates with major frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, React Native, Vue, Svelte, Remix, etc.) and is designed to work seamlessly with AI coding tools. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$79.6M** across multiple rounds. Key rounds include a $3.5M Seed (2021), a $26M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital (2022), and a subsequent $24M Series A extension (2025). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev) | [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Neo, Jamstack Innovation Fund [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount has grown **64% year-over-year** to approximately 31 employees. The company has active job postings across engineering and product roles, with a **100% quarterly increase** in job listings. Talent is sourced from top tech companies including Dropbox (6 hires), Google (2), Figma, and Plaid. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Reactive architecture**: Unlike traditional BaaS platforms, Convex provides automatic, granular real-time sync between database state and the frontend, eliminating the need for state management libraries and cache invalidation.
- **Developer experience**: The entire backend is written in TypeScript, making it highly accessible to frontend developers and enabling AI coding tools to generate high-quality backend code with exceptional accuracy.
- **Strong consistency with ACID compliance**: Offers transactional guarantees that many competing real-time databases do not, making it suitable for complex, data-critical applications.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Both founders are former Senior Engineering Directors/Principal Engineers at Dropbox, with deep expertise in exabyte-scale storage, distributed systems, and global database infrastructure. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us)

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-powered development**: Convex is doubling down on AI integration, positioning its TypeScript-native platform as the ideal backend for AI agents and AI-generated code. The company has a dedicated Head of AI (Seth Raphael) and is actively hiring for AI engineering roles. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/)
- **Ecosystem expansion**: Building a component ecosystem where developers can install pre-built backend modules via `npm i`, reducing the need to build common backend features from scratch.
- **Scaling the team**: With 6 open roles as of June 2026, Convex is focused on growing its engineering, product, and AI teams to accelerate product development and market reach. [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Convex emphasizes a mission-driven, high-trust environment. Core values include "Be Worthy of Trust," "Give a Shit," "Make Work Human," "Do it for the Why," and "Drive Forward Progress." The team is described as "small (but growing!)," "close-knit, welcoming," and "genuinely passionate." [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model — three days in the office (San Francisco) for collaboration and connection, with up to two days remote for focused work. Candidates must be able to commute to the San Francisco office. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Office**: A "nice office full of plants and natural light" located at 444 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and meaningful equity, 401k retirement plan, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance (premiums covered for employees and dependents), flexible paid vacation with 10+ observed holidays, commuter benefits subsidy, and quarterly team off-sites. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs)
- **Engineering culture**: High-impact roles on a small team with deep technical challenges (distributed systems, databases, real-time infrastructure). The team includes engineers from Dropbox, Google, Figma, and Plaid, offering a strong mentorship environment. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) | [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev)

## Sources
1. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/) — Official product page
2. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/about-us) — About Us page (mission, team, history)
3. [convex.dev](https://www.convex.dev/jobs) — Careers page (culture, benefits, values, work policy)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/convex-dev) — LinkedIn company page (funding, headcount, talent sources, locations)
5. [fastaijobs.com](https://www.fastaijobs.com/companies/convex) — Third-party job tracker (funding stage, open roles)

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