Senior Android Engineer - AI-Driven, Scalable Apps

Bumble; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Mentorship

Job summary

Bumble is seeking an experienced Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Android features using modern tooling in a hybrid Austin office. You’ll drive end-to-end delivery, mentor peers, and shape architecture while collaborating with PMs, designers, and other engineers.

You will evaluate AI tools to improve development workflow and contribute to a high-quality codebase with a focus on performance and maintainability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building and shipping production Android applications.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android development practices.
• Experience building UIs using Jetpack Compose and/or XML-based views, with an understanding of their tradeoffs.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining Android application architectures (e.g. MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture) in medium-to-large codebases
• Solid understanding of Android platform fundamentals, including activity/fragment lifecycle, threading, performance, and memory management
• Experience integrating and consuming networked APIs from Android clients, including error handling and offline considerations
• Experience owning Android features end-to-end, from technical design and implementation through testing and release
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, inclusive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure Bumble app features using GCP.
• Drive technically complex features from inception to delivery, owning the full lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to ship new features.
• Evaluate and apply AI-based development tools to enhance productivity and code quality.
• Lead architecture discussions and propose scalable technical solutions.
• Support junior engineers through pairing, mentoring, and code reviews.
• Guide engineering standards and best practices to maintain high-quality codebase.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

Architecture patterns

UI performance

Networking APIs

End-to-end ownership

Communication

Job description

Bumble is seeking an experienced Senior Android Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable Android features using modern tooling in a hybrid Austin office. You’ll drive end-to-end delivery, mentor peers, and shape architecture while collaborating with PMs, designers, and other engineers.

You will evaluate AI tools to improve development workflow and contribute to a high-quality codebase with a focus on performance and maintainability.