Backend PHP Engineer - People Recommendations

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Bumble is in search of a Backend Software Engineer to contribute to the continuous advancement and maintenance of our expansive Internal recommendation engine. The Recommendation team is dedicated to curating tailored suggestions, ensuring the right individuals connect with the right audience at the right time. Our responsibilities extend to the foundational matchmaking algorithms driving both Badoo and Bumble applications.

This pivotal role zeroes in on the vital low-level components of our engine, offering you the chance to shape the experiences of millions of users worldwide. With deep integration with AI-powered technologies, we build a dual-side recommendation system which creates millions of new connections for our members. 

Situated within the Data and Services Group, this role is integral to furnishing the core functionalities of our applications. We emphasize scalability, reliability, performance, and reusability to cater to the demands of end-users and developers alike. Our overarching goal is to develop a balanced recommendation system aligned with business objectives, ensuring each problem domain is addressed comprehensively.

• Participate in the creation of our Recommendation system
• Contribute to large backend projects as part of a working group of engineers (backend / data science / ML)
• Support existing services written in C and PHP. Regular maintenance of the system and aligning it with existing data governance requirements
• Write services and running them in the cloud and on-prem data centres using contemporary technologies like K8s, ArgoCD, Vault.
• Support our critical PHP-based backend software, optimised for performance and reliability, holding data for hundreds of millions of members, and interacting via GRPC.
• Implement AI-driven models for serving our customers' requests and enhancing the existing system capabilities
• Optimise backend code, look for bottlenecks and maintain the health of your services in production
• Suggest and implement innovative solutions
• Proactively communicate with colleagues to refine application design
• Actively participate in the whole process of development, from initial design to deployment and support
• Write backend code using PHP, with long-term focus on Go

• Computer Science/Tech-related degree is highly desirable
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Proven experience driving large backend projects with multiple people involved
• Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Knowledge of *nix console environment
• Experience in PHP  
• Strong will to learn new technologies
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Bumble For Friends, and Geneva. 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), friendship (Bumble For Friends) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Bumble For Friends is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections. Geneva is a group and community app for people to connect based on shared interests.