Software Engineer

Budibase; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Optional 4-day work week

Stock options

Regular company get-togethers

Job summary

Budibase is hiring Software Engineers to help build the next generation of our open-source platform. You’ll work across Apps, Automations, Agents, or our core Platform and ship meaningful product work with ownership in a small, experienced team.

This role is fully remote with regular company get-togethers, and there is an optional 4-day work week. Budibase offers a salary range of £45k–£60k plus stock options and 24 months runway towards profitability.

Qualifications

• Have professional software engineering experience.
• Have strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals.
• Are comfortable working across frontend and backend.
• Have shipped real product features to users.
• Care about usability and product quality.
• Can take a problem and work through it to production.
• Use AI coding tools and are curious about how AI is changing software development.
• Enjoy learning and working across different parts of a codebase.
• Communicate clearly and work well with others.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the app-building experience.
• Develop workflow and automation capabilities.
• Build AI agents that can use tools, data, and automations.
• Create integrations with external systems and APIs.
• Improve performance, reliability, security, and permissions.
• Build product experiences that make complex capabilities easy to use.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Frontend development

Backend development

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Node.js

React

Svelte

Job description

Why this role is special

Budibase is hiring Software Engineers to help build the next generation of our open-source platform.Budibase has 28k GitHub stars and is used by teams around the world to build apps, automate workflows, connect to data, and use AI agents to get operational work done.

We’re looking for strong, product-minded engineers who enjoy building and shipping software. Depending on your experience and interests, you could work across Apps, Automations, Agents, or our core Platform.

Why join Budibase:

• Build an open-source product with 28k GitHub stars
• Work on apps, automations, AI agents, integrations, and platform problems
• Ship meaningful product work with real ownership
• Work in a small, experienced engineering team
• Fully remote, with regular company get-togethers
• Optional 4-day work week
• £45k–£60k + stock options
• 24 months runway and close to profitability

About Budibase

Budibase is an open-source platform for building apps, automations, and AI agents.

Teams use Budibase to connect to their data, build internal tools, automate workflows, integrate their existing systems, and create AI-powered processes.

We started as a low-code platform for internal tools. Today, we’re building a broader platform for operational work — combining apps for people, automations for repeatable processes, and AI agents for more dynamic work.

Our goal is simple: make the workplace faster.

What you’ll work on

You’ll join one of our product engineering teams and start contributing to meaningful parts of Budibase.

That could include:

• Building and improving our app-building experience
• Developing our workflow and automation capabilities
• Building AI agents that can use tools, data, and automations
• Creating integrations with external systems and APIs
• Improving performance, reliability, security, and permissions
• Building product experiences that make complex capabilities easy to use

We’re a small engineering team, so there are plenty of opportunities to work across different parts of the product.

The kind of person we’re looking for

We’re looking for a mid-level Software Engineer with strong engineering fundamentals and good product instincts.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have professional software engineering experience
• Have strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals
• Are comfortable working across frontend and backend
• Have shipped real product features to users
• Care about usability and product quality
• Can take a problem and work through it to production
• Use AI coding tools and are curious about how AI is changing software development
• Enjoy learning and working across different parts of a codebase
• Communicate clearly and work well with others

You don’t need previous AI experience. Strong engineering fundamentals, curiosity, and the ability to learn and ship matter more.

Useful experience

Experience with any of the following is useful, but not required:

• TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Svelte, or similar
• Full-stack SaaS products
• Databases, APIs, and third-party integrations
• Workflow or automation products
• Internal tools, low-code, or developer tools
• LLMs, agents, tool calling, or other AI capabilities
• Open‑source or self‑hosted software

What success looks like

You’ll start contributing quickly, working alongside experienced engineers to ship improvements to Budibase.

As you get familiar with the product and codebase, you’ll take ownership of increasingly substantial pieces of work — understanding the problem, helping shape the solution, building it, and getting it into users’ hands.

We’re particularly interested in engineers in Belfast and across Northern Ireland. Budibase is fully remote, but we’d like to build a stronger local engineering presence and are happy to meet candidates for coffee in and around Belfast.