Senior Go/C+ Engineer Full Time

Bumble Inc.

Inclusion at Bumble Inc.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of 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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Introduction

Bumble is seeking an expert Go/C/C++ Engineer to help in the ongoing development and support of our large-scale Internal Developer Platform. This role will be focused on some of the most critical pieces of our platform on which everything else relies. Almost every developer in our company will use the results of your work, so we pay special attention to the performance, reliability and usefulness of our system.

The role sits in the Platform Features Group, the purpose of which is to provide the core functionalities of an App, with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance and reusability to meet the needs of both end-users and developers. We strive to build a solution for each problem space as a set of Platform Products with business outcomes in mind.

What you’ll do

• Participate in creation of our Platform Products, including things like:
• Working on products and services which should be developed and maintained centrally: Member Identity Platform (including Registration & Authentication for all our brands), Member Data Platform (including a transactional storage with around 1 PB of data), Chat Platform, Media Platform, API Platform, Geo services.
• Writing services and running them in the cloud and on-prem datacenters using contemporary technologies like K8s, ArgoCD, Vault.
• Support our critical C/C++/Go based software, optimised for performance and reliability, holding data for hundreds of millions of users, and interacting via GRPC.
• Rewriting legacy C++ services in Go to simplify maintenance
• Take part in the evolution of our storages, implementing the Cloud migration strategy
• 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 C/C++ and Go, with long-term focus on Go

About you:

• Proven backend development experience
• Computer Science/Tech related degree is highly desirable
• C/C++ and Go language proficiencyExperience in JVM languages is a bonus, especially Kotlin
• Experience in PHP language is a bonus
• Words like caching, sharding, replication, reliability are familiar to you or you should be able to learn them quickly
• Strong will to learn new stuffKnowledge of nix console environmentUnderstanding how to optimise and fine-tune backend application that uses MySQL or other external data sources
• Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL

Global benefits

Maven Fertility

We offer a $10,000 lifetime benefit opportunity to all employees and their partners around the world. This benefit can be used to support your reproductive journey – from abortion care and related travel costs to fertility treatment, egg-freezing, adoption, surrogacy, and more.

Family & compassionate paid leave

Family leave to support you and your loved ones when needed (including victim of domestic abuse or violent crime).

26 weeks’ parental leave

26 weeks paid leave for primary for secondary caregiver following the birth, adoption or surrogacy of a child.

Unlimited paid time off

Take the time you need when you need it.

Company-wide week off

Twice a year, we have a company-wide week off (it’s essential for some teams to continue working and they will be offered alternative time off instead).

Focus Fridays

Twice a month we have a no meeting, no deadline, no email and no Slack rule on a Friday so you can focus without distraction.

Equity

Share in the success of the company with our Equity plan.

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Fruitz and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through kind connections. Founded by CEO 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 BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages open and honest communication of dating intentions through playful fruit metaphors. Official is an app for couples that promotes open and honest communication between partners and was founded in 2020.