As a Staff Engineer on the iOS team for BFF and Plans, you'll help shape the technology behind products that spark real-life friendship, belonging, and community, helping people move from online connection to meaningful experiences offline. You'll work across product, design, data, backend, and mobile engineering to reimagine how iOS experiences can make it easier, safer, and more joyful for people to find friends, discover plans, and build community in their everyday lives. This role is for someone who brings deep technical judgment, lives our values of Curiosity and Excellence in how they solve ambiguous problems, and is open to using AI-assisted engineering practices thoughtfully where they can improve quality, learning, or developer productivity without replacing human care and accountability.
What You'll Do- Set technical direction for complex iOS initiatives across Bumble For Friends and Plans, translating product ambition into scalable mobile architecture that supports friendship, group, and community experiences.
- Lead the design and delivery of high-quality iOS features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through testing, release readiness, App Store delivery, and post-launch learning.
- Champion Excellence by evolving Swift-based architecture in a large production codebase, including patterns such as MVVM, The Composable Architecture-inspired approaches, or similar, so teams can move quickly without compromising maintainability.
- Shape performant, accessible, and localised user experiences using deep knowledge of UIKit, working knowledge of SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, view rendering, app lifecycle, memory management, and iOS platform fundamentals.
- Take ownership of reliability and performance across the iOS experience, including multithreading, networked application programming interface integrations, error handling, latency, crash diagnosis, and smooth rendering.
- Collaborate with purpose across mobile, backend, product, design, data, and safety partners to define pragmatic technical paths, resolve trade-offs, and see work through from insight to impact.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, debugging practices, and testing strategy, creating a culture of Respect where strong technical debate leads to better outcomes.
- Stay curious about responsible AI-assisted development workflows, such as improving test coverage, documentation, debugging, and delivery quality, while applying human judgment, privacy awareness, and care to how tools are used
About You- Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.
- You have built and shipped production iOS applications at scale, with strong proficiency in Swift, deep experience in UIKit, and working knowledge of SwiftUI in production environments.
- You have designed, evolved, and maintained scalable iOS architectures in large codebases, and you can explain trade-offs clearly across MVVM, The Composable Architecture-inspired patterns, modularisation, dependency management, or similar approaches.
- You bring strong iOS concurrency and performance expertise, memory management, rendering performance, startup time, network latency, and crash or regression analysis using Xcode debugging tools and Instruments. [Suggested]
- You have strong experience with Combine framework and Swift Concurrency - comfortable with reactive data-flow patterns, async/await, actors and structured concurrency, error handling and interoperability with SwiftUI and the Observation framework.
- You understand how to integrate and consume networked APIs from iOS clients, including resilient error handling, performance considerations, offline or degraded states, and thoughtful user experience when systems fail.
- You have strong knowledge of iOS platform fundamentals, including app lifecycle, view rendering, accessibility, localisation, testing, release quality, and App Store delivery.
- You have experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Github Actions) to maintain workflow configurations, managing builds, test, and release automation.
- You take ownership of complex technical problems, collaborate with purpose across disciplines, and demonstrate an agile mindset when balancing product impact, engineering quality, speed, and long-term maintainability.
- You model Bumble's values of Courage, Respect, and Curiosity by mentoring others, welcoming different perspectives, raising quality standards, and staying open and excited about AI as a helpful engineering partner where it responsibly improves how teams learn, build, and deliver.
Why join us?- Own meaningful projects that directly impact millions of Bumble users.
- Learn and grow in a high-performing engineering team committed to mentorship and learning.
- Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
- Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world-class benefits.
Location- This role is based in Austin or NYC, and we ask that you're within a commutable distance to this office, so that you're able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.
- We have a hybrid environment that requires you to be in the office Monday - Wednesday.
- Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time
$265,000 - $285,000 a year
About UsBumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.
AI FluencyAI is important to us. We're excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.
We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don't use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.
Final CompensationWill be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.
Benefits & PerksInsurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week
Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
401k with 4% company match if you contribute 6%, 90-day eligibility
Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
Maternity and Fertility benefit + 26 week paid parental leave
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