Bumble Inc.

Lead Software Engineer - Bee AI

US TX Austin

No sponsorship$225k-$255kDetected 77 days ago

PythonBackend DevelopmentGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingDesign SystemsRecruiting

About the role

Bee is already live and evolving quickly.
This is a highly impactful individual contributor role with broad influence across engineering, product, and data.
We're excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

You bring deep software engineering experience in production systems, with strong Python expertise and a track record of building scalable backend services
You collaborate effectively across disciplines, take ownership of outcomes, and adapt quickly as priorities evolve, demonstrating an agile mindset and working with purpose
As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping this next generation of connection.
We're now scaling both the ambition and the systems behind it - building intelligent agents that guide interactions, enhance matchmaking, and continuously learn from member behaviour.
You'll operate as a technical leader within the Bee AI team, setting direction for how we build, evaluate, and scale AI agents - while collaborating with purpose, taking ownership, and seeing ideas through to real-world impact.
AI is used only to support our team's efficiency and improve the candidate experience - not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy.

Typically requires 8-10 years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.
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

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.
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.
Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.
AI is important to us.
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Benefits & Perks
Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time

This listing is sourced directly from Bumble Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.