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Staff Backend Engineer – Trust & Safety
| Company | Bumble |
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| Location | Austin, TX, USA |
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| Salary | $215000 – $275000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Proven experience as a backend engineer, including at a comparable level of seniority (architectural or technical leadership) for this role.
- Strong proficiency in PHP or similar backend programming languages, and extensive experience building and scaling backend systems.
- Proficiency in designing RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of databases (SQL, NoSQL) and distributed systems
- Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and performance optimization techniques
- Your ability to rapidly gain an understanding of the architecture of our key systems, and to form an opinion on issues and improvements.
- Experience of co-owning the technical strategy and roadmap for the area, identifying opportunities and contributing to shaping our roadmap whilst partnering with other engineering leaders.
- Your skills in architectural design and decision making for complex, ambiguous, and high-sensitivity systems and problem spaces, where you’re able to balance innovation with scalable and iterative solutions.
- Experience in building relationships across the wider business, contributing back to guilds or similar.
- Your experience of assessing and mitigating risk.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills: You build trust with stakeholders, champion a positive team environment, and ensure clarity in goals and execution.
- Believer in Bumble Inc.’s brand vision and values.
Responsibilities
- Act as the most senior individual contributor within the Trust and Safety group, partnering with product and engineering manager colleagues to define and meet our Trust objectives.
- Work on Trust and Safety’s most challenging and ambitious technical problems, providing leadership, architecture, and decision making, with a focus on building scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
- Design and optimize backend services (primarily in PHP) to handle high-volume data flows, and improve overall system performance, reliability, and security.
- Working closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders such as Operations, CX, Policy, InfoSec (etc) to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Contribute to and maintain a healthy engineering culture through reviewing and improving practices and processes.
- Where needed, dive into specifics and get hands on with code within teams.
- Inspire, motivate, and mentor other engineers, including at senior and lead levels, ensuring high standards of code quality, testing, and scalability.
- Partner with the engineering managers to build a supportive and inclusive culture which values diversity.
- Support on other activities, such as hiring for our growing engineering team.
- Horizon scan with technology, stay up-to-date with emerging trends, tools, and techniques in Trust and Safety, and bring new solutions to the team.
- Representing our work internally and externally.
- Implement robust security measures and ensure systems adhere to industry compliance standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Trust and Safety-related domains such as content moderation, anti-abuse tools, or online safety.
- Familiarity with machine learning models used in contexts such as abuse prevention, fraud detection, or content moderation.
- Experience of working with legislation such as DSA, OSA, RES etc.
