[Hiring] Software Engineer II, Backend @Bubble

Role Description

You'll help tackle challenges faced by the largest cloud providers, working alongside a small, elite team on a platform that is reshaping the traditional engineering stack for the entire world. This is an opportunity to grow your skills on real-world, high-scale systems while learning from senior engineers, and to help foster an inclusive, effective, and collaborative engineering culture. This role includes after-hours/on-call availability.

• Contribute to the Bubble infrastructure that scales to infinitely many apps of any size and complexity
• Help improve performance and reliability across backend services, supporting our efficiency, capacity management, and data tier
• Support observability efforts across core parts of the system, helping implement SLOs and surface performance characteristics to end users
• Help support billions of requests across a platform that powers arbitrary end user applications, by building and iterating on core backbone services
• Contribute to the workflow engine and data tier, supporting high-volume ingest, export, and workflows for diverse direct-to-consumer applications
• Build foundational services and tools that support our next-generation cloud infrastructure
• Participate in our triage and on-call process (along with the rest of the engineering team) to diagnose and resolve issues, and help implement changes that prevent recurrence

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, preferably with experience in high-growth startups
• Strong coding skills
• Some understanding of scalable distributed systems, and a willingness to build proficiency with languages and tools such as Node.js, Rust, PostgreSQL, and Terraform (AWS experience is a plus)
• Ownership mindset, taking initiative to build and fix
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of contributing to solutions that scale to complex and high-traffic applications
• Excellent communication skills to effectively partner with teammates and managers, and the ability to commit to and execute priorities
• Willingness to participate in on-call processes to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues
• Alignment with our values, including a desire to empower others, a focus on team and user success over individual achievement, and transparency and willingness to admit mistakes and failures

Requirements

• Familiarity and a willingness to learn fast in our tech stack
• Frontend: Typescript, SolidJS
• Backend: Typescript, Node.js, Redis, Postgres, TimescaleDB
• Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, RDS, Elasticache), Terraform, Typescript, Rust

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Wellness and work enablement stipends
• Generous PTO
• A Sabbatical program