Staff Software Engineer, Core Matching & Machine Learning at Bumble Inc. | Austin, Texas, United States | Rezi

Staff Software Engineer, Core Matching & Machine Learning at Bumble Inc.

Staff Software Engineer, Core Matching & Machine Learning

Bumble Inc. · Austin, Texas, United States

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Staff Software Engineer, Core Matching & Machine Learning

Bumble Inc. · Austin, Texas, United States

14 hours ago
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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.