Senior Software Engineer

Bubble Group, Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 183,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Bubble

Flexible PTO

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) matching

Wellness stipends

Sabbatical program

Job summary

Bubble Group, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to help build and scale a distributed cloud platform used by millions.

You’ll work on backend services, data infrastructure, and platform reliability, with Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and Terraform, in a remote-friendly environment aligned to NYC time. The role emphasizes on-call readiness, strong problem-solving, and collaboration with a world-class engineering team.

Qualifications

• Current senior engineer with 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems and backend architecture.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms and on-call incident response.

Responsibilities

• Implement Bubble infrastructure that scales to many apps and users.
• Improve performance and reliability of backend services and data tier.
• Design observability, define SLOs, and expose performance metrics to users.
• Support billions of requests across a platform supporting diverse apps.
• Build workflow engine and scale data tier for high-volume ingest/export.
• Develop next-generation cloud infrastructure, focusing on reliability and scalability.
• Participate in triage and on-call processes to quickly diagnose and resolve issues.

Skills

Node.js

Rust

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Job description

We built Bubble with a clear mission: to empower everyone to create software. Our AI visual development platform lets anyone, from first-time entrepreneurs to enterprise teams, take an idea from prompt to fully-functional, scalable app across web, iOS, and Android. With over 6 million users in more than 100 countries, Bubble is breaking down the barriers to entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide.

Our Product

Bubble is the only fully visual AI app builder that lets you vibe code without the code to go beyond prototypes and launch real apps to real users. Chat with AI when you want speed, edit directly when you want control. Bubble's visual editor lets you fine-tune any detail, from the design to privacy rules and programming logic, so you're never stuck, even if AI hits its limits. Everything you need comes built in: a unified web and native mobile editor, enterprise-grade hosting, security, database management, and automatic scaling that grows with your business. You can build just about anything on Bubble, and our community is living proof. Mailead grew a $10K investment into a $2M valuation, and Faceless.video went from zero to $1M+ ARR in under a year. People aren't just launching products on Bubble, they're building real businesses. See how Bubble builders are shipping apps that change industries, solve problems, and shape the future here: Inspiring builders, breakthrough apps.

Why Join Bubble Now?

The rise of AI-generated software has validated everything Bubble has been building toward for over a decade. But pure AI-generated code is fragile, hard to debug, and rarely production-ready. Bubble bridges that gap, combining the speed of AI with a structured visual platform that produces stable, scalable, secure software. The people who join Bubble right now will help define what that means for millions of builders around the world. If you've ever wanted to work on something that genuinely changes who gets to build, this is your moment.

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

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $183,000 to $237,000. Actual pay is determined by multiple factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and market demand.

Location

This is a remote-friendly role open to candidates authorized to work in the U.S. Our team is based in NYC and works Eastern Time.

We're currently set up to hire across most U.S. states.

States we're not currently set up to employ in: AK, AL, AR, DE, HI, ID, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MT, NE, NH, NM, ND, OK, RI, SC, SD, VT, WV, WY. If you're in one of these states but open to relocating to NYC, we'd still love to hear from you.

If you'd like to join us in New York, we're happy to help with relocation. We prefer hiring within commuting distance of our Manhattan office because we value getting together in person regularly - folks who come in enjoy catered lunches, team events, and other perks.

Our Company’s Tech Stack

Here's what we build with. If you've worked with some of this, great - if not, we care more about how you think than which tools you've used: Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS, React Native Data & AI Workflows: JSON-based app representations, proprietary datasets

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:

• 401(k) matching
• Wellness and work enablement stipends
• Generous PTO
• A Sabbatical program

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. Perhaps this job doesn't fit your background? Join our talent community !

PERKS

Everything you need to do your best work

Everyone at Bubble gets equity in the company. It's important to us that you're invested in Bubble's future. We're here for the long term, and we want you to have a stake in it.

Flexible PTO

Most employees take 15-20 days off per year in addition to company holidays so you have time to recharge.

Where we work

Bubble HQ is based in New York City. Our team is flexible-first, with remote employees across the US. In-office requirements vary by role.

We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance options from 100% employer-paid to tiers requiring minimal pre-tax deductions.