About the Role
As a member of the Machine Learning team in Recommendations, you will shape intelligent systems that power meaningful connections, safer interactions, and personalized experiences. You will be a foundational member of a small, dynamic team dedicated to creating cutting-edge solutions that redefine online relationships.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for the recommendations platform and evolve systems servicing millions of members.
- Identify high-leverage engineering investments across retrieval, ranking, and serving.
- Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems for recommendations across multiple teams.
- Solve high-leverage technical problems and clarify ambiguous architectural decisions.
- Establish architectural principles, engineering standards, and observability practices.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
- Drive long-term platform evolution including service decomposition, infrastructure, and developer tooling.
- Write and review high-quality code and rapidly prototype new ideas.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building large-scale backend or distributed systems.
- Experience delivering complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Deep expertise in designing and operating high-scale distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of recommendation systems, ranking architectures, and decision systems.
- Experience building cloud-native systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy and influence architectural direction.
- Proven experience partnering with Product, Data Science, and Engineering leadership.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and improving engineering standards.
- Strong AI fluency and experience using modern AI-assisted engineering tools.
Skills
- Go
- Kotlin
- Java
- Distributed Systems
- Recommendation Systems
- Ranking Architectures
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Generative AI
- Machine Learning
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $255,000 - $285,000
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- 1 company-wide week off
- Focus Fridays
- Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance
- 401k with 4% company match
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line
- Maternity and fertility benefits
- 26 weeks paid parental leave
- Premium App Access
About the Company
- Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo.
- Founded in 2014, the platform focuses on healthy and equitable relationships.
- Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center.
Equal Opportunity
- Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from people of all ages, colors, sexual orientations, gender identities, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people.
