Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Platform)
AI analytics platform for exploring data, building data apps, and collaborating with trusted context.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Hex
Hex Technologies Inc. operates Hex, an AI analytics platform combining natural-language self-serve, SQL and Python notebooks, interactive data apps, and AI agents in a governed workspace. Its shared context engine grounds answers in organizational data, business definitions, and knowledge.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
This backend-heavy role focuses on computation, performance, data systems design, and systems architecture for Hex's Compute team. The engineer will remain hands-on while driving architectural decisions, technical designs, and platform evolution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Experience with computation, performance, database and storage optimization, and systems architecture.
- Experience with parallel execution and caching strategies.
- Experience solving large-scale systems design problems.
- Python and/or TypeScript required.
- Strong communication and technical leadership skills.
Responsibilities
- Evolve the graph-based execution architecture for user notebooks.
- Build compute components that support faster and smarter execution.
- Drive parallel execution and caching strategies.
- Instrument systems to diagnose performance problems.
- Build platform capabilities such as an internal query language.
- Author and review technical proposals.
- Mentor engineers.
- Propose and roadmap long-term designs.
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible paid time off