Engineering Manager

Bubble’s Developer Experience (DX) Pod is dedicated to improving the productivity, quality, and satisfaction of engineers working at Bubble. Its mission is to modernize the developer environment, lead AI adoption, reduce friction in day-to-day workflows, and unlock sustainable long-term velocity for the entire engineering team. This includes enhancing the internal design system, implementing an AI code review system, and speeding up the build pipeline.

Some initiatives are driven directly by the pod, while others involve building standards, frameworks, and example implementations that empower other teams to adopt best practices. By enabling engineers to work faster and with more confidence, the DX Pod creates leverage across the organization and helps Bubble’s engineering culture scale as its product and customer base grow.

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager on the Developer Experience Pod, you’ll lead a team focused on improving how engineers build, test, ship, and monitor code at Bubble. You’ll take ownership of complex initiatives—from technical design through execution—ensuring they deliver measurable improvements to developer velocity, performance, or satisfaction. You’ll work closely with your pod to prioritize initiatives and collaborate with other teams to roll out changes that scale beyond the pod itself. This is a hands-on role; you should be comfortable weighing in on architecture, reviewing PRs, and, as time permits, contributing code yourself.

What you’ll do at Bubble:

• Lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for the developer experience within Bubble.
• Own the DX strategy and roadmap, identifying and executing on the biggest opportunities to improve engineering velocity and quality.
• Lead career development and hiring for your team. You’ll expand, uplevel, and promote your engineers in an equitable fashion, ensuring every individual has an opportunity for success.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, including AI tooling, into our development lifecycle.
• Partner with staff engineers and engineering managers to successfully roll out changes and ensure we’re delivering impact across Bubble.
• Set technical quality standards for our codebase and balance proper debt investments while making progress on product roadmaps.
• Optimize the local development loop, including build, bundling, and hot reload times.

About you:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years of engineering management experience.
• Strong proficiency across the stack, from the frontend through infrastructure.
• 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.
• Experience utilizing AI tooling to accelerate development workflows, and a critical perspective on how to integrate these tools safely and effectively.
• Experience organizing and leading multiple projects, ensuring alignment, execution, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving skills, balancing pragmatic short-term improvements with strategic, scalable solutions.
• Adaptable and curious — you proactively identify inefficiencies, dig into root causes, and design solutions that scale beyond your own team.

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.