Lead Software Engineer (BFF)

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 TypeScript/Golang GraphQL 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.

What you’ll do:
• Develop horizontally scalable backend systems using TypeScript and Go, designed to handle millions of concurrent users
• Design and implement GraphQL 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

Minimum requirements:
• 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 TypeScript or Go
• Experience building and maintaining GraphQL APIs
• Experience with SQL and noSQL (ie Redis, DynamoDB) 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

Why Join Us:
• 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.

Location:
• This role is based in Austin or New York, 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

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.

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