Engineering Manager - Fullstack
StackBlitz
Australia, Canada, Germany, India, United Kingdom +1 moreremotePosted 14 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- 10+ years full-stack/systems development required, 3+ years leadership required
- Salary/compensation not stated
- Experience designing and scaling REST/GraphQL APIs serving millions of requests
- Experience with containerization, virtualization, and sandboxing concepts
- Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude) required
- Expertise in browser APIs, WebAssembly, Web Workers, and browser-based runtime environments
Role overview
Bolt.new by StackBlitz is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own core platform architecture, code quality, and team growth. The ideal candidate balances significant coding time with leadership responsibilities, focusing on WebContainers integration, browser runtime systems, and backend infrastructure. This role involves driving technical initiatives, managing technical debt, developing engineers, and coordinating across teams in a fully remote, globally distributed environment. The company emphasizes shipping fast, solving real problems, and pushing boundaries in AI-powered developer tools.
Responsibilities
- Own core platform architecture: WebContainers integration, browser runtime systems, performance optimization, and backend infrastructure
- Write code regularly on complex features, migrations, and architectural improvements
- Review core platform PRs and maintain quality standards across the domain
- Drive technical initiatives and manage technical debt strategically
- Coordinate with other Team Leads on cross-domain architectural decisions
- Conduct performance reviews and own career development for core team members
- Hold regular 1:1s to support growth, remove blockers, and provide feedback
- Make hiring decisions and address performance issues proactively
- Build a high-performing, autonomous team culture
- Assign team members across features based on skills, capacity, and priorities
- Participate in coordination meetings with other Team Leads
- Regular 1:1s with Head of Engineering to align on priorities and resources
- Run weekly core team meetings for knowledge sharing
- Champion AI coding tools and model effective usage
- Build AI-powered core platform features and intelligent runtime capabilities
- Dogfood Bolt.new daily and drive product improvements
Requirements
- 10+ years full-stack/systems development, 3+ years leadership
- Strong Node.js, TypeScript, and modern JavaScript ecosystem knowledge
- Expertise in browser APIs, WebAssembly, Web Workers, and browser-based runtime environments
- Experience designing and scaling REST/GraphQL APIs serving millions of requests
- Understanding of distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare or Azure)
- Proven ability to optimize backend performance, caching strategies, and database design
- Experience with containerization, virtualization, and sandboxing concepts
- Knowledge of load balancing, rate limiting, and designing for high availability
- Experience with developer tooling, build systems, and runtime optimization
- Track record of architectural decisions balancing speed and maintainability
- Daily user of AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude)
- Experience building AI-integrated applications and platform features
- Performance reviews, career development, and difficult conversations
- Growing engineers to senior/staff+ levels
- Hiring backend/platform engineers
- Building remote team culture
- Coaching mindset with balance of individual and business needs
- Deep understanding of browser internals and web platform capabilities
- Experience designing scalable, performant runtime systems
- Strong architectural thinking for systems handling scale and growth
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Pragmatic mindset: ship MVPs, bias toward action, match quality to business need
- Business thinking: tie technical work to clear outcomes
- Collaborative: knowledge sharing and unblocking others is core work
Nice to have
- Experience building developer tools, IDEs, or online code editors
- Open-source contributions to runtime or tooling projects
- Background in distributed systems or cloud infrastructure at scale
- Experience with service workers, IndexedDB, and offline-first architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration platforms
- Knowledge of CDN optimization, edge computing, and global infrastructure
Additional details
- You do not need a college degree to apply
- You do not need to be located in the U.S. — we're remote-friendly
- You do not need to meet every qualification listed above
- Originally posted on Himalayas