Senior Software Engineer

At Bumble, we're on a mission to create a world where all relationships are healthy and equitable. The Bee AI team is reimagining how people meet by introducing an intelligent, AI-powered product that sits alongside Bumble Date - helping members connect in more curated, thoughtful, and human ways, while preserving the magic of matching and conversation at the core of the Bumble experience. To get a glimpse of what we're building, you can explore our product vision here: As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help shape and scale the systems powering this next generation of connection. Bee is already live and evolving quickly, and this role will play an important part in building intelligent agent experiences that guide interactions, enhance matchmaking, and continuously learn from member behaviour. You'll contribute to how AI shows up responsibly and meaningfully in people's experiences, bringing curiosity, strong engineering judgement, and a commitment to thoughtful experimentation. This is a highly collaborative individual contributor role where you'll work closely with engineering, product, design, and data partners to turn ambitious ideas into reliable, scalable product experiences. You'll help drive technical excellence across the Bee AI platform while collaborating with purpose, taking ownership, and seeing ideas through to meaningful member impact. What You'll do Design, build, and improve production AI agent systems for Bee, helping create more curated and engaging ways for members to connect within an AI-driven product experience Develop and maintain Python-based backend services and agent workflows using PydanticAI and GCP, with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and operational reliability [Suggested] Contribute to agent development practices including prompt management, context orchestration, response schema design, fallback handling, and versioning approaches [Suggested] Build and improve evaluation tooling and feedback loops for AI systems, including experimentation frameworks, telemetry, monitoring, and agent performance analysis [Suggested] Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate ambiguous opportunities into high-quality shipped features and iterative product improvements Apply strong engineering judgment to responsible AI development by assessing outputs for quality, safety, transparency, and bias while ensuring appropriate human oversight Contribute to technical direction and code quality standards through thoughtful system design, peer collaboration, mentoring, and pragmatic decision-making Work cross-functionally, take ownership of delivery, and adapt quickly as priorities evolve, demonstrating an agile mindset and embodying our Bumble values of Curiosity, Respect, and Excellence About You Typically requires 6-8 years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills. You bring strong software engineering experience building and operating scalable backend systems, with deep expertise in Python development You have experience building AI-powered product experiences or backend systems that support AI and ML workflows, ideally including AI agents, prompt orchestration, or evaluation tooling You are comfortable working with schema-validated LLM interactions, prompt structures, context management, and production safeguards for reliable AI behaviour You have experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and understand how to design systems with strong observability, resilience, and operational clarity You independently solve complex technical problems, exercise sound judgment, and contribute effectively within cross-functional teams You have experience using experimentation, instrumentation, monitoring, and feedback loops to improve system quality and product outcomes over time You collaborate effectively across disciplines, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, and demonstrate ownership from insight through delivery You use AI thoughtfully in your own work to improve efficiency, quality, and learning, while applying responsible, inclusive, and human-centred practices in how AI is developed and deployed Location This role is based in 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. We have a hybrid environment that requires you to be in the office Monday - Wednesday. Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time $190,000 - $215,000 a year For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. This position is also typically eligible to participate in our short- and long-term incentive programs. Benefits include 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 for the entire company. Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines-just deep work. 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. 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