Software Engineer, Budibase
AI Agents
£50-60k
AI workflow toolkit
Be an early applicant
AI workflow toolkit
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
£50-60k
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help teams turn data into action.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a builder with strong product instincts. Someone who is excited by AI, but understands that production software still needs clear UX, reliable systems, sensible defaults, permissions, observability, and great debugging. You might be a good fit if you:
- Have strong full-stack engineering fundamentals
- Use AI coding tools regularly and are curious about how they change engineering
- Are interested in agents, workflow automation, internal tools, and operational software
- Are comfortable in a modern TypeScript/JavaScript stack
- Care deeply about product quality and user experience
- Like ambiguous problems and can turn them into shipped product
- Can think across frontend, backend, integrations, data, and product
- Communicate clearly and write things down
- Enjoy working with designers, product people, and customers
- Bring positive energy to fast-moving technical problems
- You do not need to tick every box. We care more about curiosity, pace, judgment, and ownership than a perfect keyword match. Relevant experience could include:
- Building full-stack SaaS products
- Building with LLMs, agents, tool calling, structured outputs, RAG, evals, or prompt/instruction design
- Working with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Svelte, or similar technologies
- Building integrations with tools like Slack, Teams, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, Jira, Zendesk, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or internal APIs
- Working on workflow builders, automation tools, internal tools, low-code platforms, or developer tools
- Designing approval flows, request systems, audit logs, permissions, or operational dashboards
- Working on software for operations teams such as RevOps, IT, HR, Finance, Support, or Customer Success
- Contributing to open-source or self-hosted software
What the job involves
- Budibase is building the open-source platform for teams who run business operations
- We started as a low-code platform for building internal tools
- Today, Budibase brings together apps, automations, AI agents, integrations, and more so teams can build and run operational processes end to end
- We’re looking for a product-minded Software Engineer to help us build the next chapter of Budibase: AI agents that can answer questions, use tools, trigger automations, work with private data, ask for approval, and help teams get work done across the systems they already use
- This role sits at the heart of our AI product direction
- You’ll work across agents, automations, integrations, and the builder experience - helping turn AI from a demo into something teams, such as RevOps and ITOps, can trust with real operational work
- We’re open to hiring one or two mid-level engineers if we meet the right people
- Every company has operational work that is repetitive, fragmented, and too dependent on manual coordination
- A request comes in through Slack, a form, an email, or a ticket
- Someone checks context in a CRM, spreadsheet, database, billing tool, knowledge base, or internal system
- They make a decision, ask for approval, update a record, notify a team, and leave some kind of audit trail
- Budibase exists to make that kind of work faster
- AI agents are a major part of that future
- Not generic chatbots, but agents that can operate inside real workflows: using tools, following instructions, respecting permissions, escalating to humans, and handing work off to automations when deterministic execution is needed
- These workflows exist across many teams: RevOps, IT, HR, Finance, Support, Customer Success, Operations, and Admin teams
- You’ll help build Budibase Agents and the product experiences around them. That could include:
- Building and improving the agent builder
- Helping agents use tools, integrations, APIs, and Budibase automations
- Improving how agents work inside automations and messaging platforms
- Designing experiences for instructions, knowledge, tools, approvals, permissions, and escalation
- Making agent behaviour easier to debug, observe, and trust
- Improving reliability across model providers, tool calls, structured outputs, retries, and errors
- Helping teams connect private models, private data, and self-hosted infrastructure
- Building UX that makes powerful AI workflows understandable to non-expert users
- Working on operational use cases such as approvals, onboarding, data updates, triage, routing, enrichment, reporting, and internal requests
- Using AI tools yourself to prototype, test, ship, and improve the product faster
- This is not about building toy chatbots. It’s about helping teams automate real work safely
- In your first few months, you’ll be shipping meaningful improvements to Budibase Agents and the surrounding product experience
- You’ll help make it easier for a team to create an agent that can receive a request, understand the context, use the right tools, ask for approval when needed, complete the work, and leave behind a clear record
- Longer term, you’ll help Budibase become the best open-source platform for teams who want AI agents that work safely with private tools, private data, and human oversight
Our take
Low-code development tools are in high demand for their ease of use and ability to hugely reduce product launch runways. This is especially the case when it comes to building apps for internal use, freeing up developers to focus on building products that can be monetised. Indeed, the global low-code development platform market size is growing annually by around 30%.
Budibase has tapped into the demand, allowing users to connect to external databases and build internal tools such as apps, forms, and workflows in minutes. Despite only being founded in 2019, the platform is already being used by tens of thousands of companies, including high profile names like Netflix, Disney, Tesla and P&G.
Having secured venture funding in November 2022, the company is now backing itself to grow further in the next few years, differentiating itself by being open-source and including a number of automated built-in features to boost its user-friendliness.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$7m
SEED
Jan 2021
$1.8m
SEED
Total funding: $9.3m
Company HQ
Belfast, UK
Leadership
Michael Shanks
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Software Developer & Engineer at SciLeads, TM3, and CVS Caremark Corporation.
Martin McKeaveney
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Director at digital products agency Shogun Digital, Data Engineer at SquareFoot, and Software Engineer at security data and analytics company Rapid7.
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