Engineering Manager

Bubble builds a visual AI app development platform for creating and scaling software. The Engineering Manager will lead the Developer Experience team and its strategy, improving engineering workflows, quality, and velocity through technical initiatives and cross-team collaboration.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• candidates authorized to work in the U.S
• If you've worked with some of these, great — if not, we care more about how you think than which tools you've used: