About Velvet

Velvet is an AI SQL editor on top of your unified data. Connect your databases, third-party tools, and events to ask natural language questions on top of live data. Our system automates complex SQL and returns results in milliseconds.

We have funding from institutional VCs and are seeking part-time or full-time contributors.

About this role

As a founding engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with the founders to move quickly and iterate towards product-market-fit.

The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who is comfortable navigating a modern tech stack. Our system is built on Next.js (Vercel), Typescript, Node/Deno, Postgres (Supabase), Clickhouse, and OpenAI.

Preference for people based in EST.

Work responsibilities

• Ship new features weekly
• Maintain and improve system architecture
• Collaborate on strategy and planning

Our values

• Communicate clearly. We’re transparent, concise, and deliberate.
• Take ownership. We take responsibility and complete our work.
• Create value. We work for our customers and ship high-quality features.

What we offer

• Remote, asynchronous, calm work environment.
• Autonomy over your work. We trust you to make the right decisions for the company.
• Fair compensation. Tell us what you need to do good work.

The team