9 days ago
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and long-term evolution of Bumble’s recommendations platform, including retrieval, ranking, serving, experimentation, and feedback loops.
- Design and lead large-scale distributed systems for online serving, feature delivery, experimentation, and related recommendation infrastructure.
- Identify and solve high-leverage architectural and technical problems across the recommendations stack.
- Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, observability practices, and operational excellence improvements.
- Mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction across teams, and share technical context and judgment.
- Lead foundational initiatives including service decomposition, developer tooling, and AI-assisted engineering.
- Contribute hands-on through code, design work, prototypes, production systems, and critical technical decisions.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems and delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams.
- Deep expertise designing and operating high-scale distributed systems using modern languages such as Go, Kotlin, Java, or similar.
- Experience with recommendation systems, ranking architectures, retrieval, candidate generation, ranking, feature serving, experimentation, and feedback loops.
- Experience building cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform or comparable public cloud infrastructure, with knowledge of scalability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence.
- Ability to define technical strategy and influence architectural direction across multiple engineering teams without relying on organizational authority.
- Experience partnering with Product, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business problems into durable technical solutions.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers, raising engineering standards, and improving systems, tooling, architecture, and engineering effectiveness.
- Strong AI fluency and experience using modern AI-assisted engineering tools while applying human judgment and maintaining member trust.
- GIS experience is preferred.
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About Bumble
Bumble 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.