Bumble

Senior Software Engineer - Matching and Recommendations

Bumble • $130K — $155K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in large-scale backend or distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in designing high-scale distributed systems using modern programming languages (Go, Kotlin, Java).
  • Strong understanding of recommendation systems and ranking architectures.
  • Experience building cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform or similar.
  • Proven ability to define technical strategy and influence architecture across teams.
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Data Science, and Engineering to create technical solutions.
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and enhancing engineering standards.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction for Bumble's recommendations platform.
  • Design large-scale distributed systems for recommendations across teams.
  • Identify and solve key technical problems in the recommendations stack.
  • Raise engineering quality through technical leadership and best practices.
  • Mentor senior engineers and improve team efficiency through shared knowledge.
  • Drive long-term platform evolution and foundational initiatives.
  • Contribute hands-on to critical designs and code for recommendations platform.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead and innovate on a large-scale recommendations platform.
  • Collaborative work environment with diverse technical teams.
  • Focus on mentoring and developing senior engineers.
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies including AI and cloud solutions.
  • Ability to impact engineering quality and standards organization-wide.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Own the technical direction for Bumble's recommendations platform, evolving the systems that service recommendations for millions of members. Identify the highest-leverage engineering investments across retrieval, ranking, and serving, while balancing relevance, marketplace health, reliability, and latency.
  • Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems that power recommendations across multiple teams and domains. From online serving and feature delivery to experimentation and feedback loops, keep them simple, resilient, scalable, and elegant as the platform evolves.
  • Identify and solve the highest-leverage technical problems across the recommendations stack, bring clarity to ambiguous architectural decisions, and create solutions that help multiple teams move faster.
  • Raise the bar for engineering quality through technical leadership. Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, observability practices, and operational excellence that improve the quality and maintainability of systems across the organization.
  • Multiply the impact of other engineers by mentoring senior engineers, influencing technical direction across teams, and sharing context and judgment on the organization's most challenging engineering problems.
  • Drive platform evolution for the long term. Lead foundational initiatives such as service decomposition, recommendation infrastructure, experimentation capabilities, developer tooling, and AI-assisted engineering that enable the organization to move faster over time.
  • Remain deeply technical through hands-on contribution. Writing and reviewing high-quality code where it creates the greatest leverage. Contributing to critical designs, prototypes, and production code. Rapidly prototyping new ideas and serving as a trusted expert for the most critical parts of Bumble's recommendations platform.

About you
  • Typically requires 6+ years of building large-scale backend or distributed systems, with experience delivering complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams.
  • Deep expertise in designing and operating high-scale distributed systems, with strong experience in modern languages such as Go, Kotlin, Java, or similar, and a track record of building reliable production platforms.
  • Strong understanding of recommendation systems, ranking architectures, or other large-scale decision systems, including concepts such as retrieval, candidate generation, ranking, feature serving, experimentation, and feedback loops.
  • Experience building cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable public cloud infrastructure, with deep knowledge of scalability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence.
  • Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and influence architectural direction across multiple engineering teams through expertise, collaboration, and sound technical judgment rather than organizational authority.
  • Proven experience partnering closely with Product, Data Science, Machine Learning and Engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business problems into durable technical solutions.
  • A track record of mentoring senior engineers, raising engineering standards, and creating leverage by improving systems, tooling, architecture, and the effectiveness of the wider engineering organization.
  • Strong AI fluency, using modern AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity while applying thoughtful human judgment, maintaining high engineering standards, and ensuring member trust remains central to every technical decision.

Nice to have
  • GIS experience

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

About Bumble

Bumble is an online dating app that allows users to connect with potential partners. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Bumble offers a range of features, including photo verification, video chat, and voice calls. The company serves a variety of demographics, including young adults and the LGBTQ+ community.
Learn more about Bumble
Size
600 employees
Market Cap
$2.6 billion
Industry
Business Services
Revenue
$582.1 million
NASDAQ
BMBL
* Ladders Estimates

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