Lead Software Engineer; BFF

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

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BFF is a platform for finding friends and communities online, and getting together IRL. BFF provides a rich set of communication and engagement tools that allows users to discover communities and find friends. Find your people online, get together offline.

As a member of the BFF backend team, you'll help in continuing to build features and maintain existing Type Script/Golang Graph

QL services. You'll be heavily involved in the product development process and given the opportunity to give creative input into many phases of the development lifecycle. You’ll work on something that will have mass impact, mass adoption, and mass reach.

This is a high-impact role where your contributions will directly help guide all of the applications that depend on our backend services (iOS/Android/web). You'll work closely with our product, design, and outreach teams to help the communities on Geneva flourish. The role will require you to partner with multiple cross‑functional teams as stakeholders/customers. If you love product ideation, owning, collaborating, building, and constantly raising the bar, you will thrive in this role.

• Develop horizontally scalable backend systems using Type Script and Go, designed to handle millions of concurrent users
• Design and implement Graph
  
  QL APIs to support our client applications
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive testing strategy, including unit, integration, and end‑to‑end tests
• Guide features through the full development lifecycle, from conception through production deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and client engineers to refine and develop product requirements, ensure seamless integration, and optimal user experiences

• 7+ years of relevant experience in backend development
• Experience acting in a lead role wherein you contribute to architecture, design, and mentorship
• Strong proficiency in Type Script or Go
• Experience building and maintaining Graph
  
  QL APIs
• Experience with SQL and noSQL (i.e. Redis, Dynamo
  
  DB) databases
• Expertise in implementing thorough testing strategies
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization technologies
• Experience working through the entire product development lifecycle from inception to development and delivery
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication abilities and experience working in cross‑functional teams

• Help BFF find product market fit.
• Opportunity to shape the roadmap, engineers work closely with product and design throughout the entire product development process
• Drive architecture decisions, have a wide impact on how BFF is built
• Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world‑class benefits.

• This role is based in New York or Austin, and we ask that you’re within a commutable distance to this office, so that you’re able to come onsite regularly to collaborate across engineering teams.
• Please note:
  
  We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time

$215,000 - $260,000 a year

• Base compensation ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. Position includes short‑ and long‑term incentive programs.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy.
• Maven Fertility: $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more.
• 26 Weeks Parental Leave:
  For both primary and secondary caregivers.
• Family & Compassionate Leave:
  Inclusive of domestic violence recovery.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off:
  Take the time you need.
• Company‑wide Week Off:
  Annual collective rest…