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Our platform solves key pain points with today’s data and analytics tooling, and empowers anyone to explore data using natural language, with or without code, on trusted context. Thousands of customers like Ramp, Figma, Stubhub, Anthropic, and Gamma love Hex for our beautiful UI, agentic superpowers, and boundless flexibility.\nHex has raised over $100M from leading investors like Sequoia, a16z, Snowflake and Amplify. With office hubs in San Francisco and New York, as well as remote team members throughout the US and UK, we’re a high-agency team that ships fast and has fun doing it. Check out our Intro to Hex video and employee handbook to learn more about what it’s like to work at Hex.\n\nAbout the roleWe are looking for experienced, backend-leaning product engineers to help expand the capabilities of our industry-leading AI analytics platform.\nAt Hex, we're deeply focused on building powerful, integrated AI features that augment and accelerate analytics workflows. The possibilities here are incredible, and we're uniquely positioned to reinvent how people think about understanding data.\nIn this role, you’ll work on a product team building complex workflows that increase the capabilities, reach, and ergonomics of Hex’s agentic analytics platform. We’re especially focused on features that enable Hex’s AI agent to operate across more customer segments and surface areas, including APIs, MCP, and command-line interfaces.\n\nWhat you will doOur backend product engineers work on features across the entire Hex application. Here are some example projects:\nBuild and extend Hex’s API and CLI to enable powerful, ergonomic workflows for our most sophisticated technical users\n\nDesign MCP server and client implementations to expand entry points into our capabilities\n\nDesign and implement a next-generation access control system, including role-based access control (RBAC), admin request/approval flows, and tiered admin roles that scale with complex organizations\n\nOwn full-stack product changes end-to-end, from backend policy enforcement to admin-facing workflows, ensuring these enterprise features are intuitive, reliable, and secure\n\nPropose and implement well-architected, scalable systems in collaboration with the broader Hex team\n\nAbout You5+ years of backend or full-stack software engineering experience\n\nSkilled at building systems with high levels of complexity and intricate business logic\n\nDeep interest and/or experience in developing state-of-the-art agentic workflows involving disparate systems and tools\n\nExperience working in a remote-first team, with strong communication skills in that context\n\nA passion for technical collaboration, including RFCs, code reviews, and architecture discussions\n\nHands-on familiarity with enterprise integrations: SSO, SCIM-based provisioning, audit logs, MFA, and delegated access\n\nA strategic mindset that balances business and product goals with engineering excellence—you understand tradeoffs between user value and technical complexity and operate pragmatically\n\nWillingness to make changes anywhere in the stack to drive impact\n\nOur stackOur product is a web-based notebook and app authoring platform. 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