Lead Backend Engineer; BFF

BFF is a platform for finding friends and building communities online. We provide a rich suite of tools that empower users to discover communities, connect meaningfully, and organize IRL gatherings. Simply put: find your people online, get together offline.

Plans is an IRL platform for meeting your people. Sign up and get invited to events. The Plans platform then matches users into small groups optimized for compatibility. Simply put: meet first, match later.

As a member of the BFF/Plans backend team, you’ll play a key role in building and scaling the services that power this experience. You’ll work across Type Script and Go, developing and maintaining GraphQL/REST APIs to serve millions of users. This is a high-impact role with real product influence – you’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and outreach teams to shape features from concept to launch.

If you’re someone who loves building systems that scale, shaping product direction, and collaborating across disciplines to deliver world‑class user experiences, you’ll thrive here.

• Design, build, and maintain horizontally scalable backend systems using Type Script and Go to support millions of concurrent users.
• Develop GraphQL and REST APIs powering our iOS, Android, and web clients.
• Lead features through the full lifecycle – from ideation and design to implementation, deployment, and maintenance.
• Define and uphold a robust testing strategy across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end layers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and client engineers to translate product requirements into scalable and performant backend solutions.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and process improvements that raise the quality bar for the entire team.

• 7+ years of experience in backend development, with strong proficiency in Go
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• Solid understanding of both SQL and No
  
  SQL databases (e.g. Redis, DynamoDB).
• Deep knowledge of testing best practices and frameworks.
• Experience owning features end‑to‑end, from conception, through development, to production.
• Strong grasp of system design principles and a practical approach to scaling products that serve millions of users.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Enjoys working collaboratively in cross‑functional teams and thrives in fast‑paced, product‑driven environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Help BFF find product market fit.
• Opportunity to shape the roadmap, with engineers working closely with product and design throughout the entire product development process.
• Drive architecture decisions, having a wide impact on how BFF is built.
• Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world‑class benefits.

This role is based in Austin or New York. 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.

Please note:

We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time.

Base salary: $225,000 - $255,000 per year. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, unlimited paid time off, short‑ and long‑term incentive programs, and other world‑class perks.

• Insurance: medical, dental, and vision.
• Unlimited PTO plus one company‑wide week off and Focus Fridays every week.
• Fully paid life and long‑term disability insurance.
• 401(k) 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 plus 26 weeks paid parental leave.
• Premium app access.

Bumble Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of all ages, color, 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.