Lead Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, build, and extension of production AI agent systems for Bee, creating more curated ways for members to meet within a distinct AI‑driven product experience.
• Architect and evolve Python‑based services and agent workflows using Pydantic, AI and GCP, emphasizing reliability, extensibility, and maintainability.
• Define and improve end‑to‑end agent development, including prompt management, context handling, response schemas, fallback logic, and versioning practices.
• Establish robust evaluation approaches for agent quality, covering offline and online evaluations, experimentation frameworks, telemetry, and clear success criteria.
• Build repeatable patterns for monitoring, debugging, and managing agents in production, including observability, performance analysis, and continuous improvement loops.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to turn ambiguous opportunities into shipped features, while collaborating with adjacent teams for integration.
• Apply strong technical judgment to responsible AI development by assessing outputs for quality, bias, safety, and transparency, ensuring human oversight where needed.
• Act as a technical leader by setting a high bar for code quality, system design, and delivery, demonstrating an agile mindset aligned with Bumble’s values.

About You

• Typically 8–10 years of experience, or equivalent demonstrated skills.
• Deep software engineering experience in production systems with strong Python expertise and a track record of building scalable backend services.
• Hands‑on experience building or guiding AI/ML‑powered product experiences, especially AI agents, prompt design, context orchestration, and evaluation strategies.
• Comfort designing schema‑validated LLM interactions, managing prompts and response structures, and creating deterministic fallbacks and safeguards for production.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and designing systems with strong observability, resilience, and operational clarity.
• Skilled at defining technical approaches for ambiguous, high‑impact problems, using independent judgment while influencing across teams and creating alignment.
• Ability to build evaluation and feedback loops for AI systems, including instrumentation, experimentation, monitoring, and iterative improvement of agent behaviour.
• Effective collaboration across disciplines, ownership of outcomes, and an agile mindset that adapts quickly as priorities evolve.
• Use AI thoughtfully in your own work to improve speed, quality, and learning while ensuring responsible, inclusive, and human‑centred application.

Location

This role is based in Austin, Texas, and requires being within a commutable distance to the office. The hybrid schedule expects onsite presence Monday‑Wednesday. Visa sponsorship is not available.

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 helps people of all ages meet nearby and create meaningful platonic connections, while Badoo, founded in 2006, is a pioneer of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to Bumble. The company encourages curiosity and experimental thinking about how AI can amplify impact, while emphasizing responsible and inclusive use. Candidates are asked to use AI responsibly in their applications and not to fabricate experiences.

Inclusion

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage people of all ages, colors, sexual orientations, gender identities, veterans, parents, people with disabilities, and neurodivergent individuals to apply. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the hiring process, and candidates may indicate their pronouns in the application.