Junior Backend PHP Engineer

Inclusion at Bumble Inc. 

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.

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Bumble is looking for a talented Junior Backend Engineer to contribute to our technical projects from specification through to delivery and beyond. You will impact millions of users, learn from the community, and experiment a lot. If you get a buzz from taking initiative, learning new skills and technology, and have an appetite for growth, this is your place.

You will join our dynamic Safety Experience team, who are dedicated to building and maintaining an ecosystem of authentic users, including proactive monitoring of adherence to community standards and investigating innovative ways to maintain a safe experience for our members.

The Safety Experience team plays a crucial role in enhancing the way our users interact and connect, delivering robust and scalable solutions to meet the evolving needs of our community.

• Hands-on development: with support from other engineers, you will analyse product specifications, design implementations, write and test code and deliver Backend service designs
• Contribute ideas and suggestions to enhance the direction of the product
• Work within an agile team (daily standups, weekly planning meetings)
• Review analytics and performance metrics to draw conclusions and drive change

• Knowledge of PHP language capabilities
• Interest in protecting data privacy
• Understanding of design patterns & Object Oriented Programming
• Enthusiastic about teamwork in an AGILE/Scrum environment
• Sound computer science foundations: algorithms, data structures, concurrency, threading, and programming languages
• You'll love to write clean, reusable code and have a passion for development inside and outside of the office
• Solid communication skills and team-working capability
• Positive and logical approach together with a willingness to learn
• Attention to detail and a passion for quality
• A desire to work with a fresh, social digital brand

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.