Senior Software Engineer, Core Developer Experience

About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience Pod, you'll lead technical projects that improve how engineers build, test, and ship code at Bubble. You'll take ownership of complex initiatives, from shaping technical designs through execution, and ensure they deliver measurable improvements to developer velocity, performance, or satisfaction.

You'll work closely with the pod's technical lead and engineering manager to prioritize initiatives, and collaborate with other teams to roll out changes that scale beyond the pod itself. This role is hands-on but also highly collaborative: you'll mentor teammates, set standards for high-quality code and maintainable architectures, and help establish best practices that raise the bar across Core engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer for CoreDX, you'll focus on: - Migrating off legacy frameworks and introducing modern frontend tooling - Upgrading shared libraries and improving support for our internal design system - Reducing test suite runtime and improving reliability of developer-facing tests - Optimizing the local development loop, including build, bundling, and hot reload times - Investigating and resolving sources of frontend performance regressions in the Editor - Defining standards and building frameworks that other Core teams can adopt to increase consistency and speed - Staying up to date with modern AI tools and incorporating them into the developer workflows About you: - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a history of delivering high-impact technical projects - Strong proficiency with modern frontend frameworks (TypeScript, SolidJS/React, etc.) and the ability to work confidently across the stack - Deep experience with developer tooling - build systems, bundlers, testing frameworks, package managers, and CI/CD pipelines - and a passion for improving how engineers work day to day - Proven ability to modernize large, complex codebases, including migrating frameworks, upgrading dependencies, and designing for long-term maintainability - Experience organizing and leading projects that span multiple engineers, ensuring alignment, execution, and measurable outcomes - Strong problem-solving skills, balancing pragmatic short-term improvements with strategic, scalable solutions - Collaborative and clear communicator who partners effectively across teams and mentors engineers at different levels - Adaptable and curious - you proactively identify inefficiencies, dig into root causes, and design solutions that scale beyond your own team

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 these, great - if not, we care more about how you think than which tools you've used: - Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS, React Native - Backend: Typescript, Node.js, Rust - 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: 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 - Generous 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.

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