Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bubble is an AI visual development platform that enables people and teams to create scalable web, iOS, and Android applications. The Engineering Manager will lead the Developer Experience team, own its strategy and roadmap, and improve how engineers build, test, ship, and monitor code. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical work involving architecture, code reviews, developer tooling, AI adoption, and development workflow optimization.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Comprehensive health coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Wellness and work enablement stipends
- Generous PTO
- A Sabbatical program
- Remote-friendly role
- Relocation assistance for candidates joining Bubble in New York
- Catered lunches for employees who come into the Manhattan office
- Team events for employees who come into the Manhattan office
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