Senior Software Engineer (NI remote)

Budibase is hiring Senior Software Engineers to help build the next generation of our open-source operations platform. Budibase has 28k GitHub stars and is used by 400K teams around the world to build apps, automate workflows, connect to data, and use AI agents to get operational work done.

We’re looking for experienced, product-minded engineers who can take ownership of significant product and technical problems and drive them through to production.

Why join Budibase

• Build an open-source product
• Work across apps, automations, AI agents, integrations, and platform problems
• Own substantial pieces of product and technical work
• Help shape technical decisions and how we build
• Work in a small, experienced engineering team
• Fully remote, with regular company get-togethers
• Optional 4-day work week
• £65k-£80k + stock options
• 24 months runway and close to profitability

What you’ll work on

You’ll join one of our product engineering teams and take ownership of substantial parts of Budibase. That could include:

• Building and evolving our app-building experience
• Developing our workflow and automation capabilities
• Building AI agents that can reliably use tools, data, and automations
• Designing and building integrations with external systems and APIs
• Improving performance, reliability, security, and permissions
• Solving technical and architectural problems as the platform grows
• Building product experiences that make complex capabilities easy to use

We’re a small engineering team. Senior engineers at Budibase are expected to be hands-on and close to the product. You’ll have significant autonomy over how problems are solved and will work directly with product, design, and other engineers to decide what we build and how we build it.

We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer with strong engineering fundamentals and good product instincts. You might be a good fit if you:

• Have significant professional software engineering experience
• Have strong JavaScript or TypeScript fundamentals
• Are comfortable working across frontend and backend
• Have owned substantial product or technical work from problem through to production
• Can work effectively with ambiguity and make sound technical decisions
• Care about usability, reliability, maintainability, and product quality
• Can break complex problems into pragmatic solutions and ship them
• Can identify when a system needs deeper technical investment and when a simpler solution is sufficient
• Use AI coding tools and are actively exploring how AI changes software development
• Communicate technical decisions clearly and work effectively with product, design, and engineering