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About the Role
Join Bumble's Machine Learning team in Recommendations to shape intelligent systems that power meaningful connections, safer interactions, and more personalized experiences. You will be a foundational member of a dynamic team creating cutting-edge solutions that redefine how people connect and form relationships online.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for Bumble’s recommendations platform, evolving systems that service recommendations for millions of members.
- Identify high-leverage engineering investments across retrieval, ranking, and serving, balancing relevance, marketplace health, reliability, and latency.
- Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems powering recommendations across multiple teams and domains.
- Identify and solve high-leverage technical problems across the recommendations stack, bringing clarity to ambiguous architectural decisions.
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through technical leadership, establishing architectural principles, engineering standards, observability practices, and operational excellence.
- Multiply the impact of other engineers by mentoring senior engineers, influencing technical direction, and sharing context on challenging engineering problems.
- Drive platform evolution for the long term, leading foundational initiatives such as service decomposition, recommendation infrastructure, and experimentation capabilities.
- Remain deeply technical through hands-on contribution, writing and reviewing high-quality code, contributing to critical designs, prototypes, and production code.
- Rapidly prototype new ideas and serve as a trusted expert for critical parts of Bumble’s recommendations platform.
Requirements
- Typically requires 8+ 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Generative AI
- Machine Learning
- Go
- Kotlin
- Java
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- AI-assisted engineering tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years
About the Company
- 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.
- AI 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent people to apply.
- We're happy to make any reasonable adjustments that will help you feel more confident throughout the process, please don't hesitate to let us know how we can help.
- In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).