Senior Software Engineer, Intelligent Systems (GIS, AI, Matching and Recommendations)

Bumbleinc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance: Medical/dental/vision

Unlimited PTO

401k with company match

Wellness benefit

Parental leave

Premium App Access

Job summary

Bumble Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the AI & Intelligent Systems team in Austin. You will design and build scalable backend services and distributed systems powering AI-enabled experiences for millions of Bumble members.

You will collaborate with ML Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists to productionize models, build inference services, and deploy AI-powered features at scale while ensuring reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building production backend software or distributed systems.
• Strong Kotlin, Go, Python skills, or Java-like languages.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience integrating AI or ML into production software, including model serving or LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin, Go, and Python.
• Develop distributed systems and APIs powering AI-enabled experiences.
• Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to productionize models and AI capabilities.
• Design cloud-native systems that are reliable, observable, and secure.

Skills

Kotlin

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Cloud deployment

AI integration

Geospatial

Job description

At Bumble, we're building a world where healthy relationships thrive, and intelligent software helps millions of people make meaningful connections every day.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our AI & Intelligent Systems team, you'll build scalable backend services and distributed systems that power AI-enabled experiences across Bumble. Working closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists, you'll develop the infrastructure and applications that bring intelligent features into production while ensuring they remain reliable, performant, and easy to evolve.

This role is ideal for experienced software engineers who enjoy solving complex engineering problems, integrating AI into production systems, and building modern cloud-native applications at scale. Experience with recommendation systems is valuable, but not required. We're equally interested in engineers who have built location-aware products, geospatial systems, intelligent APIs, or AI-powered user experiences.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Kotlin, Go, and Python.
• Develop distributed systems and APIs that power AI-enabled product experiences for millions of Bumble members.
• Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to productionize models, build inference services, and integrate AI capabilities into customer-facing products.
• Design cloud-native systems that are reliable, observable, secure, and resilient while balancing performance, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Build services that leverage Geospatial (GIS) data, location intelligence, and Recommendation & Matching Systems capabilities to create more personalized and context-aware experiences.
• Contribute to system architecture, technical design reviews, and engineering standards across the organization.
• Use modern AI-assisted engineering tools to improve developer productivity while maintaining high engineering quality and member trust.
• Mentor other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and collaborative problem solving.
• 5+ years of experience building production backend software or distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering experience with Kotlin, Go, Python, or closely related languages such as Java.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native services on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, asynchronous messaging, and modern software architecture.
• Experience integrating AI or machine learning into production software, including model serving, inference services, LLM APIs, or AI-powered product features.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and the software engineering practices required to deploy, monitor, and scale AI-powered systems.
• Experience building geospatial or location-aware applications is highly desirable, including technologies such as GPS services, mapping APIs, spatial databases (e.g., PostGIS), routing, or location intelligence.
• Experience with recommendation systems, search, ranking, personalization, or experimentation platforms is a plus, but not required.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to partner effectively across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data Science.

About Us

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 Fluency

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.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Benefits & Perks

• Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.
• 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

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 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).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process — such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team’s efficiency and improve the candidate experience — not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you’d prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you’d like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

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