Staff 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 and evolution of AI-powered backend systems that support conversation guidance, matchmaking, and personalised user experiences within Bee AI • Architect and scale agent-based systems, including prompt management, context orchestration, and evaluation frameworks, to ensure high-quality, reliable AI interactions • Establish best practices for building, testing, monitoring, and iterating on AI agents, creating a repeatable and scalable development lifecycle across the team • Drive experimentation and prototyping of new AI capabilities, translating early concepts into production-ready systems that deliver measurable user value • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Trust teams to shape AI-driven features that are both innovative and responsible, demonstrating Respect in how technology impacts people • Contribute deep expertise in Python (including PydanticAI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build robust, scalable, and observable services • Define and implement evaluation strategies for LLM-powered systems, including offline and online metrics, human-in-the-loop validation, and continuous improvement loops • Act as a technical advisor and thought leader, influencing architecture and long-term strategy across teams while embodying an agile mindset and taking ownership of outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience building and scaling backend systems, with strong expertise in Python and modern service-oriented or distributed architectures • Proven track record of designing and deploying AI/ML-powered products, particularly involving LLMs, agents, or recommendation/personalisation systems • Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, context management, and evaluation of AI systems, with a strong understanding of their limitations and trade-offs • Experience working with cloud platforms such as GCP, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling production systems • Ability to operate at a system level, setting technical direction and influencing across teams while remaining hands-on with implementation • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with purpose, take ownership of complex problems, and see solutions through from insight to real-world impact • Strong commitment to responsible and inclusive AI practices, applying human judgment to ensure fairness, safety, and quality in outputs • Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills. • High level of AI fluency - you actively leverage AI as a development partner, contribute to evolving best practices, and help others adopt AI effectively and responsibly

🏖️ Benefits

• 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