ElectricSQL | https://electric-sql.com | Founders Associate | FT | US based, SF Bay Area preferred (working with remote team) | $140-160k + equity
Electric is a devtools startup. We solve reactive, real-time sync across client and server [1]. We have a large developer community, millions of downloads a week, high profile customers and top-tier investors. Our software is built into platforms like Firebase, Prisma and TanStack. Our cloud product is growing 7% week on week.
This is a generalist, operational role. Working directly with the founders and founding team [2] to handle company operations as we grow into and through the Series stages.
It would be ideal if you're based in the San Francisco Bay Area. If not, you need to be able to travel there every month or so. You also need to travel to Europe for team on-sites a few times a year.
Just to say if you're interested in this kind of tech and are in the Bay Area, Sync Conf [0] just announced [1] its initial speaker lineup today and Arushi Bandi from Figma is one of the speakers.
PubSub and LiveView do go a long way. However, broadcast isn't sync and LiveView isn't appropriate for all applications.
Phoenix recently added Phoenix.Sync [0], a sync engine library explicitly designed [1] to address this. In combination with a front-end library like TanStack DB [2] it goes much further towards giving you a Figma/Linear-style sync engine out of the box [3].
On the main point around materialisation cost, I know more work is planned on compaction specifically but generally LiveStore is a framework that’s been highly crafted to address and optimise for all aspects of performance.
Electric is a read-path sync engine for Postgres that does partial replication [1]. It's agnostic to your choice of client -- you can sync into anything you like. It doesn't handle or mandate a pattern for syncing local writes back to Postgres. Instead, it's designed to allow you to handle concerns like writes and auth using your existing API [2].
Turso Offline Sync is an active-active replication system for distributed SQLite/Turso databases. IIUC, this release adds the capability to sync local writes back to the cloud [3].
This was a critical one to identify and patch: https://github.com/electric-sql/electric/security/advisories...
Just to repeat for visibility, if you're self-hosting the Electric sync service, upgrade to version >= 1.5.0 immediately.