Staff Software Engineer, Bee AI

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 layer on top of 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 product.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping this next generation of connection. Bee AI is already live and evolving quickly. If you’d like a glimpse into the experience we’re building, you can explore a recent preview here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVwmOw_jKUf/. We’re now scaling both the ambition and the systems behind it - building intelligent agents that guide conversations, enhance matchmaking, and continuously learn from interaction patterns. You’ll help define how AI shows up responsibly and meaningfully in people’s dating experiences, role modelling our values of Curiosity and Courage as you explore new frontiers.

This is a highly impactful individual contributor role with broad influence across engineering, product, and data. You’ll operate as a technical leader, setting direction for how we build, evaluate, and scale AI agents - while fostering a culture that collaborates with purpose, takes ownership, and sees ideas through to real-world impact.

• Lead the design and evolution of AI-powered backend systems that support conversation guidance, matchmaking, and personalised user experiences within Bee AI

• Architect and scale agent-based systems, including prompt management, context orchestration, and evaluation frameworks, to ensure high-quality, reliable AI interactions

• Establish best practices for building, testing, monitoring, and iterating on AI agents, creating a repeatable and scalable development lifecycle across the team

• Drive experimentation and prototyping of new AI capabilities, translating early concepts into production-ready systems that deliver measurable user value

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Trust teams to shape AI-driven features that are both innovative and responsible, demonstrating Respect in how technology impacts people

• Contribute deep expertise in Python (including PydanticAI) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build robust, scalable, and observable services

• Define and implement evaluation strategies for LLM-powered systems, including offline and online metrics, human-in-the-loop validation, and continuous improvement loops

• Act as a technical advisor and thought leader, influencing architecture and long-term strategy across teams while embodying an agile mindset and taking ownership of outcomes

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

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 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.

 

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

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).