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Bubble · 21 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Bubble is a company focused on empowering everyone to create software through their AI visual development platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to tackle challenges in building scalable infrastructure and core backend systems, while fostering an inclusive engineering culture.

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Scalable distributed systemsNode.jsRustPostgreSQLKafkaTerraformAWSPythonCommunicationProblem-solving skills

Required

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

Preferred

Familiarity and a willingness to learn fast in our tech stack which 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

Benefits

Comprehensive health coverage
401(k) matching
Wellness and work enablement stipends
Generous PTO
A Sabbatical program

Company

Bubble is a no-code development platform that allows users to create customized web and mobile applications.

H1B Sponsorship

Bubble has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (3)
2020 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$106.25M
Key Investors
Insight PartnersSignalFire
2021-07-27Series A· $100M
2020-10-01Series Unknown
2019-06-19Seed· $6.25M

Leadership Team

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Emmanuel Straschnov
Co-CEO, Founder
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Josh Haas
Founder
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