Lead iOS Engineer - Date

Bumbleinc; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Unlimited PTO

Fully paid life insurance

401(k) with company match

Monthly wellness benefit

26-week paid parental leave

Job summary

Bumbleinc is seeking a Staff Engineer for its iOS team in Austin. In this role, you will shape the technology for products that foster friendships and community connections. You will work closely with teams across product design and engineering.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience in software development, particularly in iOS, and is proficient in Swift and UIKit. Bumbleinc offers competitive compensation and a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building production iOS applications at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Swift and UIKit.
• Experience with Swift Concurrency and Combine framework.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for iOS initiatives.
• Lead design and implementation of iOS features.
• Shape performant and accessible user experiences.

Skills

Swift Proficiency

iOS Application Development

UIKit Expertise

SwiftUI Knowledge

Concurrency and Performance

Combine Framework

Education

10+ years of experience in software engineering

Tools

Xcode

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Bumble is the Love Company, and our mission is to create a world where all relationships are healthy and equitable, through Kind Connections. As a Staff Engineer on the iOS team for BFF and Plans, you’ll help shape the technology behind products that spark real‑life friendship, belonging, and community, helping people move from online connection to meaningful experiences offline.

We will work across product, design, data, backend, and mobile engineering to reimagine iOS experiences that make it easier, safer, and more joyful for people to find friends, discover plans, and build community.

Key Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for complex iOS initiatives across Bumble For Friends and Plans, translating product ambition into scalable mobile architecture that supports friendship, group, and community experiences.
• Lead the design and delivery of high‑quality iOS features end‑to‑end, from technical design and implementation through testing, release readiness, App Store delivery, and post‑launch learning.
• Champion Excellence by evolving Swift‑based architecture in a large production codebase, including patterns such as MVVM and composable‑architecture inspired approaches, so teams can move quickly without compromising maintainability.
• Shape performant, accessible, and localized user experiences using deep knowledge of UIKit, working knowledge of SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, view rendering, app lifecycle, memory management, and iOS platform fundamentals.
• Take ownership of reliability and performance across the iOS experience, including multithreading, networked API integrations, error handling, latency, crash diagnosis, and smooth rendering.
• Collaborate with purpose across mobile, backend, product, design, data, and safety partners to define pragmatic technical paths, resolve trade‑offs, and see work through from insight to impact.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, architecture discussions, debugging practices, and testing strategy, creating a culture of respect where strong technical debate leads to better outcomes.
• Stay curious about responsible AI‑assisted development workflows, improving test coverage, documentation, debugging, and delivery quality while applying human judgment, privacy awareness, and care to how tools are used.
• Own meaningful projects that directly impact millions of Bumble users.
• Learn and grow in a high‑performing engineering team committed to mentorship and learning.
• Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.
• Built and shipped production iOS applications at scale, with strong proficiency in Swift, deep experience with UIKit, and working knowledge of SwiftUI in production environments.
• Designed, evolved, and maintained scalable iOS architectures in large codebases, and can explain trade‑offs clearly across MVVM, composable‑architecture inspired patterns, modularisation, dependency management, or similar approaches.
• Strong iOS concurrency and performance expertise, memory management, rendering performance, startup time, network latency, and crash or regression analysis using Xcode debugging tools and Instruments.
• Strong experience with Combine framework and Swift Concurrency – comfortable with reactive data‑flow patterns, async/await, actors, structured concurrency, error handling and interoperability with SwiftUI and the Observation framework.
• Understand how to integrate and consume networked APIs from iOS clients, including resilient error handling, performance considerations, offline or degraded states, and thoughtful user experience when systems fail.
• Knowledge of iOS platform fundamentals – app lifecycle, view rendering, accessibility, localisation, testing, release quality, and App Store delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions) to maintain workflow configurations, manage builds, tests, and release automation.
• Take ownership of complex technical problems, collaborate with purpose across disciplines, and demonstrate an agile mindset when balancing product impact, engineering quality, speed, and long‑term maintainability.
• Model Bumble’s values of courage, respect, and curiosity by mentoring others, welcoming different perspectives, raising quality standards, and staying open and excited about AI as a helpful engineering partner where it responsibly improves how teams learn, build, and deliver.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation, equity, and world‑class benefits.
• Unlimited PTO plus one company‑wide week off plus focus Fridays every week.
• Fully paid life and long‑term disability insurance.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance (30‑day eligibility).
• 401(k) with 4% company match if you contribute 6% after 90‑day eligibility.
• Monthly wellness benefit and access to Noom, Unmind, and Your Money Line.
• Maternity and fertility benefits plus 26‑week paid parental leave.
• Premium app access.

Location & Work Arrangement

This role is based in Austin or NYC, and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office so you can come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams. We have a hybrid environment that requires you to be in the office Monday‑Wednesday.

Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, colour, 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 let us know how we can help.