Senior Software Engineer, Core Developer Experience

Bubble Senior Software Engineer 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.

The Core Developer Experience (DX) Pod is a new team dedicated to improving the productivity, quality, and satisfaction of engineers working on Bubble's core product and monolith. Our mission is to modernize the developer environment, reduce friction in day-to-day workflows, and unlock sustainable long-term velocity for the entire Core org. We focus on the pre-deployment developer experience, with an emphasis on frontend-heavy improvements in the near term.

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.

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:

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