Software Engineer II, Backend

Our Scaling team executes on our scaling, reliability, and enablement efforts to support our largest customers as they continue to grow. 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.

You'll help tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers, working alongside a small, elite team on a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. This is an opportunity to grow your skills on real-world, high-scale systems while learning from senior engineers, and to help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability.

Contribute to the Bubble infrastructure that scales to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity

Help improve performance and reliability across backend services, supporting our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier

Support observability efforts across core parts of the system, helping implement SLOs and surface performance characteristics to end users

Help support billions of requests across a platform that powers arbitrary end user applications, by building and iterating on core backbone services

Contribute to the workflow engine and data tier, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications

Build foundational services and tools that support our next-generation cloud infrastructure

Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to diagnose and resolve issues, and help implement changes that prevent recurrence

2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, preferably with experience in high-growth startups

Strong coding skills

Some understanding of scalable distributed systems, and a willingness to build proficiency with languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)

Ownership mindset, taking initiative to build and fix

Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of contributing to 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

Willingness to participate in on-call processes to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues

Alignment with our values, including a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success over individual achievement, and transparency and willingness to admit mistakes and failures

While we do not require new hires to be experts in our tech stack on day 1, familiarity and a willingness to learn fast is helpful. Our tech stack includes:

Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS

Backend: Typescript, Node.js, Redis, Postgres, TimescaleDB

Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, RDS, Elasticache), Terraform, Typescript, Rust

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation aligned to tier one markets. Our estimated salary for this role at Bubble ranges from $145,000 to $187,000. 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.

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 !