Senior Software Engineer, Matching and Recommendations

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer, Matching and Recommendations role is listed in Austin, TX; the work arrangement is not specified. Compensation is not specified. The role supports Bumble’s Machine Learning team in Recommendations, whose systems serve recommendations to millions of members. The engineer provides technical direction and hands-on contributions to scalable recommendation systems and distributed infrastructure. The work advances relevance, marketplace health, reliability, and latency while improving engineering standards, experimentation, and tools that help teams build healthy and equitable connections.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction for the recommendations platform
• identify engineering investments across retrieval, ranking, and serving
• design scalable distributed systems
• improve architecture, reliability, observability, and engineering standards
• mentor engineers and influence technical direction
• lead platform initiatives in recommendation infrastructure, experimentation, and developer tooling
• contribute to designs, prototypes, and production code.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

matching and recommendations

bumble inc.

machine learning

recommendation systems

distributed systems

backend engineering

retrieval and ranking

google cloud platform

technical leadership

mentoring

austin tx

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Senior technical leadership role with hands-on engineering across Bumble’s recommendations platform.

About the employer

Bumble Inc. is hiring for this role. Industry: Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers. Sector: 51.