Lead Software Engineer

🕒 May 5

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Bumble Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2014

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

B2C • Social Impact

Bumble Inc. is a social networking platform that focuses on fostering meaningful relationships in dating, friendships, and professional connections. It is renowned for being a dating app where women make the first move, empowering female users in dating scenarios. Beyond dating, Bumble also offers features for finding friends with 'Bumble For Friends' and professional networking with 'Bumble Bizz'. The company emphasizes creating a positive and empowering user experience, particularly for women, making social interactions better for everyone.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, build, and extension of production AI agent systems for Bee, creating more curated ways for members to meet within a distinct AI-driven product experience • Architect and evolve Python-based services and agent workflows using PydanticAI and GCP, with a strong focus on reliability, extensibility, and maintainability • Define and improve how we build agents end to end, including prompt management, context handling, response schemas, fallback logic, and versioning practices • Establish robust evaluation approaches for agent quality, including offline and online evaluations, experimentation frameworks, telemetry, and clear success criteria for agent behaviour • Build repeatable patterns for monitoring, debugging, and managing agents in production, including observability, performance analysis, and continuous improvement loops • Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data within the Bee AI team to turn ambiguous opportunities into shipped features, while collaborating effectively with adjacent teams where integration is required • Apply strong technical judgment to responsible AI development by assessing outputs for quality, bias, safety, and transparency, ensuring human oversight where it matters most • Act as a technical leader by setting a high bar for code quality, system design, and delivery, collaborating with purpose, taking ownership, and demonstrating an agile mindset in line with our values of Courage, Respect, and Excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires **8–10 years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.** • You bring deep software engineering experience in production systems, with strong Python expertise and a track record of building scalable backend services • You have hands-on experience building or guiding AI and ML-powered product experiences, especially around AI agents, prompt design, context orchestration, and evaluation strategies • You are comfortable designing schema-validated LLM interactions, managing prompts and response structures, and creating deterministic fallbacks and safeguards for production use • You have experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and know how to design systems with strong observability, resilience, and operational clarity • You are skilled at defining technical approaches for ambiguous, high-impact problems, using independent judgment while influencing across teams and creating alignment • You know how to build evaluation and feedback loops for AI systems, including instrumentation, experimentation, monitoring, and iterative improvement of agent behaviour over time • You collaborate effectively across disciplines, take ownership of outcomes, and adapt quickly as priorities evolve, demonstrating an agile mindset and working with purpose • You use AI thoughtfully in your own work to improve speed, quality, and learning, while ensuring responsible, inclusive, and human-centred application

🏖️ Benefits

• Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility • 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 • Premium App Access • Company-wide Week Off: Annual collective rest for the entire company. • Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines—just deep work.