Full-Time
Tech Lead
Svix
1-10 employees
Provides secure webhook API platform
Compensation Overview
$190k - $210k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
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- Experience designing and building high-scale backend systems.
- Strong technical, architectural, and troubleshooting skills.
- Good “taste” for software and API design.
- Proven ability to lead teams, organize projects, and drive execution.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, or similar leadership role.
- Experience with Rust, Postgres, and Redis (or ability to ramp up quickly).
- Design, build, and deploy high-quality backend code in a fast-paced environment.
- Develop and scale new products and new product features while ensuring stability and performance.
- Own technical challenges, making decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Lead the team through management, sprint planning, mentoring, and execution.
- Optimize infrastructure, databases, and system architecture for high availability and efficiency.
- This role is a player-coach (we expect this person to spend ~80% of the time coding).
Svix provides a webhook API service to manage automated messages (webhooks) between apps, enabling secure, real-time notifications. Its product handles sending and receiving webhooks through a reliable API, reducing engineering time for developers and teams. The platform emphasizes security and compliance, with certifications like SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA, making it suitable for sectors with strict data rules. It differentiates itself through a strong open-source stance—many components are open-source and actively contributed to—alongside a tiered subscription model that includes an enterprise tier offering custom requirements and hands-on support, plus a free tier for getting started. Svix’s goal is to help businesses securely and efficiently exchange real-time data between applications.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$10.5M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2021
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Andreessen Horowitz led funding round on February 28, 2023, enabling operations expansion.
- Trypulse partners with Svix for webhook delivery in Pulse platform with retries and logs.
- Svix Terms launches Transformation Templates, Slack/Discord support, and event feature flags.
What critics are saying
- Trypulse builds proprietary webhooks, displacing Svix in 12-24 months.
- AWS EventBridge undercuts Svix pricing, locking cloud customers in 12-24 months.
- Open-source alternatives drive enterprises to self-host, migrating in 18-36 months.
What makes Svix unique
- Svix provides embeddable management UI for users to inspect and replay webhook failures.
- Svix signs webhooks with symmetric and asymmetric schemes for enhanced security.
- Svix offers pre-built consumer portal customizable and white-label for integration.
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Company News
Webhooks are now live in Pulse. If you're running asynchronous extractions at scale, you've probably built some version of a polling loop. Check if the job is done. Wait. Check again. It works, but it's not elegant, and it adds latency to workflows that could be reacting in real time. Today Trypulse is making webhooks generally available in Pulse, so your systems can respond immediately when extraction jobs progress, without the polling overhead. How it works. Webhooks provide real-time notifications for extraction lifecycle events: * Job started: trigger downstream prep work * Job completed: immediately process results * Job failed: route to error handling or alerting When an event fires, Pulse sends a signed payload to your configured endpoint. You verify the signature server-side to confirm the request originated from Pulse and hasn't been tampered with. Built for production. Trypulse partnered with Svix to power webhook delivery, which means: Automatic retries with exponential backoff. If your endpoint is temporarily unavailable, Trypulse'll keep trying with increasing delays rather than dropping the event. Delivery logs and event history. Everything is visible in the dashboard: delivery attempts, response codes, and payloads. When something doesn't look right, you have the data to debug it. Verifiable signatures. Every payload includes a signature you can check to ensure authenticity. No guessing whether a request actually came from Pulse. Why this matters. For teams processing documents at volume, the difference between polling and push is meaningful. Webhooks let you: * Kick off downstream workflows the moment extraction completes * Build event-driven architectures without polling infrastructure * Reduce end-to-end latency in automated pipelines * Get notified of failures immediately rather than discovering them later It's a small addition infrastructure-wise, but it came up a lot in conversations with teams scaling their extraction workflows. Available now in the Pulse platform (Link here)
In a previous blog post, Svix Terms introduced Transformation Templates, which make transformations much easier to use for your customers.
Svix Terms recently added support for hiding event types behind feature flags to make it easy to support these scenarios, and this blog post will show you how.
Svix, a San Francisco, California-based startup that aims to make server-to-server communication easy, secure, and reliable, raised a new round of funding. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Y Combinator Continuity and existing investors Aleph, Y Combinator, Andrew Miklas, Yuri Sagalov (Wayfinder), Kevin Mahaffey (SNR), Christopher Golda (Rogue Capital), Jason Warner, Ian Storm Taylor, Kurt Mackey, Hana Mohan, Holly Dunlap, and Michael Orland. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. Led by Tom Hacohen, Founder & CEO, Svix provides large and small companies with a platform to build a state-of-the-art webhooks solution in minutes. 2nd degree connection2ndFinSMEs28/02/2023
Andreessen Horowitz is excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a new round of funding in Svix.