Technical lead responsible for owning core platform architecture and quality, writing complex full-stack code, mentoring and growing engineers, coordinating cross-team architecture, and building AI-native runtime features.
🚀 About Us
We’re Bolt.new by StackBlitz!
We’re the team behind WebContainers, the groundbreaking technology that made it possible to run Node.js right in your browser. No installs, no setup, just instant dev environments. That innovation kickstarted our journey in 2019 and powers the blazing-fast online IDE used by over a million developers every month.
But we didn’t stop there.
We took everything we learned from building WebContainers and used it to create Bolt.new. The fastest way to go from idea to production without writing traditional code. Think of it as the Canva or Figma for full-stack applications: a next-gen, AI-powered builder that lets you create, edit, and deploy web and mobile apps instantly, right in your browser.
WebContainers make it possible. Bolt.new brings it to life. Together, they reimagine what it means to build software lowering the barrier to entry, speeding up workflows, and unlocking creativity for the next generation of builders.
We’re a globally distributed, fully remote team of passionate engineers, designers, and creatives building the future of software development. If you love shipping fast, solving real problems, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible we’d love to meet you.
✨ About This OpportunityA hands-on technical leader who balances coding with leadership. You'll own core platform architecture, code quality, and team growth - spending significant time writing code while developing engineers and coordinating across teams.
🛠️ How You'll ContributeTechnical Leadership
- 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
Team Development
- 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
Coordination
- 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
AI-Native Development
- 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
Technical
- 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
Leadership
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- 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
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