
Senior Software Engineer
Overview
Builder.io's Publish engineering team builds the platform that empowers marketing and content teams to launch pages and campaigns using production-grade components, without engineering bottlenecks.
Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer at Builder.io, you will design and build the APIs, and SDKs that power Publish, ensuring they are scalable, well-documented, and reliable for the engineering teams that integrate them into their own codebases.
Responsibilities
- - Design and build the APIs, and SDKs that power Publish, ensuring they are scalable, well-documented, and reliable for the engineering teams that integrate them into their own codebases.
- - Contribute to the agentic future of Publish, building the backend infrastructure and APIs that will power AI-driven content creation, management, and publishing workflows.
- - Act as a technical bridge between the platform and the customer, translating complex enterprise requirements into scalable solutions and shortening the feedback loop between user pain and feature release.
- - Navigate the complexity of a visual CMS at scale.
- - Shape the technical direction of the Publish platform, leading through code reviews, pair programming, and taking proactive ownership of technical debt and quality issues.
- - Drive drama-free launches, anticipating edge cases, surfacing risks early, scoping projects to the right balance of effort and value, and delivering work that stands up to scrutiny.
Required Skills
- - 6+ years of experience in full-stack web development with a proven track record of shipping complex, production-grade features independently.
- - Deep expertise in React and TypeScript/Node.js, with strong instincts for performance, architectural patterns, and the rendering challenges specific to visual editors and component-driven systems.
- - Strong API and backend fluency, including experience designing and building scalable REST or GraphQL APIs, and a genuine interest in the platform and infrastructure layer, not just the UI.
- - Curiosity about AI and agentic systems.
- - Strong product intuition.
- - A customer-first mindset.
- - Cloud fluency.
- - High agency.
Benefits
- - Unlimited time off.
- - 3 weeks is the minimum that we will ask you to take each year.
- - Mental health days.
- - Paid parental leave.
- - $500 home office improvement budget.
- - $500 annual learning & development budget.
- - Co-working space reimbursement.
- - Health Insurance.
- - Additional Insurance.
- - 401k (for US based team members).
- - Real equity.
About the company
Builder.io is an AI-powered visual development platform that enables teams to build, optimize, and publish web and mobile experiences faster. Builder.io integrates visual editing directly with existing codebases, allowing developers and non-developers to create and manage content visually without code handoffs. This approach accelerates delivery across marketing, design, and engineering while maintaining full control over production code. Using a plug-and-play model with custom components, Builder.io supports a wide range of frameworks and tech stacks. The platform is built for collaboration, speed, and performance, helping teams bridge gaps between disciplines and ship high-quality digital experiences more efficiently.
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