Founder associate

About Svix

Enterprise ready webhooks service, open-source and in the cloud

Tech

Our current tech consists of Python (typed), FastAPI, Rust, React, TypeScript, Postgres, Redis and AWS.

The role

## **About Svix**Svix is a fast-growing startup building the future of server-to-server communication, starting with webhooks. We build high-quality, scalable, and fast infrastructure trusted by companies like Etsy, TaskRabbit, Brex, and the Fortune 500.We have a top 1% product & team, our customers love us, and we are working towards building a generation defining developer infrastructure company.To support our efforts, we have raised $11M from top investors including a16z and Y Combinator, along with founders and CTOs from companies like GitHub, Segment, Lookout, and Fly.io.# About the roleWe are looking for a top performer to work closely with the founder. You'll get to affect and learn all aspects of the business, see how decision are made, build a broad skill set, and developer your network. You will also get to experiment with AI for real company use-cases, and work at the cutting edge.Expect high-intensity, a fast-paced startup environment, smart colleagues, and the opportunity to do your life's work helping us become a generation defining developer infrastructure company.# MissionMake the founder more effective by owning the highest-leverage work across the business. Be a thought partner, help with strategy, and make sure the important things actually happen.Example responsibilities:- Strategy, research, and planning: market analysis, opportunity assessment, sounding board, GTM projects, etc.- Project management: goal setting, metrics, reporting, accountability, and following through on founder priorities.- Team: hiring, development, compensation, and feedback cycles.- Internal ops & systems: compliance & controls, processes, automation, and tooling.- Gap filling: owning undefined problems end-to-end, then automating them or handing them off.# **Outcomes**1. **Strategy & planning** become a trusted thought partner, where the founder can hand off ambiguous strategic questions and get back decision-ready analysis2. **Hiring** lead hiring two additional engineers in SF in the first few months.3. **Project management** set up processes so that every team has robust goal setting, metrics, reporting and accountability team wide.4. **Systems & gap filling** take over responsibilities such as company controls, processes, and automation. For example, own compliance calendar, CRM management, and BI systems so that founder time is ~0.5. **AI & Automation** connect systems, data, and AI for more connected and better decision making. The goal is to have all relevant company data accessible from a single place and queryable to systems. With the knowledge base systems being first, with the goal of having a live and reliable company knowledge base. The first step should be done in the first few months.# Competencies (ABC)- **Project management:** know how to manage projects, create plans, and execute against them while keeping everything organized **.**- **AI forward:** have used Claude Code or Codex successfully for real use-cases. Understand (high-level) some of the technical aspects including context window, tool-calling, subagents, and more. Excited and curious about leveraging these tools to increase our leverage.- **Automations:** used tools to create automations around common workflows.- **Strategic thinking:** demonstrate the ability to think in both the micro and macro levels, and how to effectively plan and execute to reach long-horizon goals.- **Competent with computers:** you don’t need to be an engineer, but you can’t be a luddite. You need to be a proficient user of computers.- **Research, learning and consumption of information:** you’re able to pickup up new topics quickly and be able to execute in new domains in short amounts of time.- **Work in ambiguity:** startups operate in high ambiguity environments. You need to be able to successfully plan and execute with missing information and constantly adapt as new information presents itself.- **Scientific:** you need to know how to construct good experiments, read data, and draw conclusions.# Qualities (ABC)- **Smart:** raw intelligence and quick thinker.- **Resourceful:** scrappy as a default, but also spends when needed.- **Wants to win:** driven, competitive, and focused on winning.- **High energy:** knows there’s a lot to be done, and has the energy to push it forward.- **High agency:** figures out what needs to be done and does it. Finds solutions to problems, and realizes we control our own destiny.- **Not lazy:** willing to do the work, automating when needed, but not outsourcing thinking. LLMs are a powerful tool, but they shouldn’t replace thinking or be used for things they are not suitable for.- **Thorough:** follows tasks through to completion and pays close attention to detail, ensuring nothing is overlooked and the quality is high.- **Values aligned** : aligned with [our values](https://www.svix.com/values/).### **General guidelines**- We like candidates with varied backgrounds - don't be shy, apply!- Hackers/OSS devs welcome, even without extensive work history. Checkout our OSS repo on [Github](https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks).- Please include a few words on why you'd like to work at Svix.- All roles are full-time - no students or part-time.