Senior Software Engineer, Core Developer Experience

Bubble • New York, NY

148d • $185,000 - $200,000

About The Position

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 Core 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.

Requirements

• 7+ 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• 401(k) Matching
• Wellness and Work Enablement stipends
• Flexible PTO
• A Sabbatical program
• Generous relocation package for those looking to move to NYC

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees