Engineering Manager, Bubble
Backend
$185-220k
In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly $20,000 in additional annual compensation
More information about location
No-code software development platform
Open for applications
No-code software development platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$185-220k
In addition to cash and equity compensation, Bubble offers a robust benefits package equating to roughly $20,000 in additional annual compensation
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
Bubble's mission is to erase the distinction between software use and software creation.
Role
Who you are
- You’re an engineering manager, with 5+ years of backend experience and 3+ years of people management
- You bring depth in systems engineering or infrastructure, e.g., reliability engineering, cloud platforms (AWS/Terraform), distributed data architecture, or backend scaling
- You’ve led teams through complex technical projects and understand how to balance speed, quality, and tech debt
- You excel at coaching, feedback, and career development
- You value inclusive collaboration and can partner well with other managers, product leads, and senior engineers
- You’re pragmatic, accountable, and energized by challenges that span the entire stack
What the job involves
- Our Platform team executes on our scaling, reliability, and enablement efforts as we look to double our customer base over the next few years
- 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
- We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead one of our three Platform pods (Green pod), which is responsible for core backend systems and infrastructure
- This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you’ll grow and support engineers, align with staff and leadership on strategy, and help your team deliver key reliability, performance, and enablement initiatives
- Speed and quality of delivery – drive helpful processes that ensure your engineers can build software as efficiently as possible while maintaining a high bar for product quality
- Technical innovation and investment – help us set technical quality standards for our codebase, and ensure the team is making proper debt investments while making progress on product roadmaps
- Career development and hiring – help expand, uplevel, and promote your engineers in an equitable fashion, ensuring every individual has the same opportunity for success
- Cultural development – help build an engineering culture of shared success and shared failure, driving inclusion, equity, and continuous learning
- Problem solving – help your team work through tricky technical challenges, mentor them, and up level their problem-solving skills
- Strategic collaboration - work closely with sales/success, engineering managers, leadership, and senior/staff engineers to ensure your team’s work supports company-wide goals and delivers impact across Bubble
- Engineering managers aren’t required to ship code directly, but comfort with our tech stack will help you mentor your team through technical challenges. Our tech stack includes:
- Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS, React Native
- Backend: Typescript, Node.js, Rust
- AI/ML: Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), LangChain
- Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, ECS, Redis, Postgres
- Data & AI Workflows: JSON-based app representations, proprietary datasets
Our take
More people than ever are interested in starting a digital product business such as a SaaS, social network or marketplace, but getting started is tough. Creating tangible proof-of-concept products generally requires software development skills, and without experience in coding, this usually results in expensive programmer hires.
Bubble provides a no-code software development platform, allowing its users to build SaaS apps, dashboards, CRMs, marketplaces, social networks, and other web or mobile-based software applications without coding experience. The platform allows users to navigate prototyping, launch, collaborative iterative development, and unlimited scaling through simple drag-and-drop interfaces, allowing anyone to develop software without the need for programming experience.
No-code software development startups have been growing in popularity and this undeniably presents significant competition for Bubble, but its all-in-one approach to design, functionality, and management gives them a cutting edge over similar niche-focussed alternatives. The company claims that through its platform, businesses can launch and develop products at a much faster rate due to increased accessibility to software development, without the need for expensive hires and infrastructure.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2021
$100m
SERIES A
Jun 2019
$6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $106.4m
Company benefits
- Generous equity - Everyone at Bubble gets equity in the company. It is important to us that you are invested in Bubble's future. We're here for the long term, and we want you to have a stake in it
- Flexible PTO - It's important for the team to be able to disconnect when they’re off. The team takes up to 20 days off per year. You can discuss with your manager to take more if needed
- Work from home opportunities
- Competitive healthcare - Your health is important. Choose from a host of medical, dental, and vision insurance options that suit your needs, either 100% employer-paid to tiers requiring minimal pre-tax deductions
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Emmanuеl Straschnοv
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as CEO Assistant for Prada. Consultant for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants from 2007 to 2010.
Josh Haas
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Management Associate for Bridgewater Associates from 2007 to 2010. Experience as Co-founder and CTO of KeywordSmart.
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