Senior Software Engineer, Backend

We built Bubble with a clear mission in mind: to empower everyone to create software. We believe anyone with an idea should be able to build it, so we’re making software creation accessible to everyone. Our AI visual development platform enables anyone, whether they’re first-time entrepreneurs or enterprise teams, to take an idea from prompt to fully-functional, scalable reality across web, iOS, and Android — all on one platform, all without writing or managing a single line of code. 
As the only full-stack, cross-device no-code platform on the market with over 5 million users in over 100 countries, Bubble is breaking down the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation across the globe.

What we’ve achieved:

Our product is working, and we are thriving. Entire VC-backed companies have been built entirely on Bubble. After finding product market fit and 8 years of bootstrapping, we raised a $100 million Series A and we’re one of the fastest-growing companies in the New York tech ecosystem.
You can build just about anything on Bubble - and our community is living proof. More than just launching products, people are turning their ideas into real businesses. Mailead grew a $10k investment in a Bubble product into a $2M valuation, while Faceless.video went from 0 to $1M+ ARR in less than a year, among many other examples.

About the Platform team:
Our Platform team executes on our scaling, reliability, and enablement efforts as we look to double our customer base over the next few years. Our scope includes both scalable infrastructure, and our core backend software systems. Success means delivering just-in-time capacity, running workloads quickly, and ensuring data scalability across numerous applications, while balancing costs and addressing issues like implementation and infrastructure inefficiencies.

About the role:

You’ll tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers with a small, elite team. This position offers an opportunity to be at the forefront of building a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. Additionally, you'll help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability.

In this role, you’ll:

• Implement the Bubble infrastructure that can scale to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity

• Improve performance and reliability across all backend services to scale our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier

• Design and implement observability across core parts of the system, define and implement SLOs, and work on an observability platform that exposes performance characteristics to end users

• Support billions of requests across a platform that supports arbitrary end user applications by designing, building, and iterating on core backbone services.

• Build the workflow engine and scale the data tier to ensure reliability and scalability, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications

• Build our next-generation cloud infrastructure, enhancing reliability, scalability, and availability, along with the foundational services and tools required to support it

• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to quickly diagnose and resolve issues, and implement the changes that will stop their recurrence

About you:

• Current senior engineer, or highly experienced engineer with 5+ years of experience in software development

• Understanding and hands-on experience with scalable distributed systems, including proficiency in languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)

• Strong problem-solving skills with a track record of implementing and supporting solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications

• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities

• Commitment to improving performance and reliability across backend services, including participation in on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Our tech stack:

While we do not require new hires to be experts in our tech stack on day 1, familiarity and a willingness to learn fast is helpful. Our tech stack includes:

• Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS, React Native

• Backend: Rust, Typescript, Node.js

• AI/ML: Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), LangChain

• Infrastructure: AWS, CDK / Terraform, ECS, Redis, Postgres

• Data & AI Workflows: JSON-based app representations, proprietary datasets

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $157,000 to $213,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location:

For this role, Bubble is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US. We will provide relocation assistance to those who are interested in moving to the NYC area.

We are only open to folks for remote work who are located in the following states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Washington.

We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly. For those who enjoy working from our Manhattan office on a more regular basis, we offer catered lunches, and happy hours, among other fun perks.

Benefits:

In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly twenty thousand in additional annual compensation:

Our benefits include, but are not limited to:

• Comprehensive health coverage

• 401(k) matching

• Wellness and work enablement stipends

• Flexible PTO

• A Sabbatical program

Join us!

Let’s democratize access to technology together! If this sounds like you, apply! If you don’t meet all of the qualifications but think you could be a match, we’d still love the chance to review your application. At Bubble, we encourage people from all ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Bubble does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Compensation Range: $165K - $205K