Staff iOS Engineer

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve the long-term technical architecture for the Date Team's iOS applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability and exceptional user experiences.

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features across multiple product initiatives while balancing long-term technical health with product velocity.

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers and Backend Engineers to shape product strategy, influence roadmap decisions and deliver customer-focused solutions.

• Champion engineering excellence by evolving coding standards, architectural patterns, testing strategies and development best practices across the iOS organisation.

• Provide technical leadership through mentoring, architectural reviews, pair programming and coaching, helping engineers across multiple teams grow their technical capabilities.

• Drive adoption of modern iOS technologies including Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, structured concurrency and scalable architectural patterns such as MVVM, The Composable Architecture (TCA) or similar. [Suggested]

• Influence platform-wide improvements in application performance, accessibility, localisation, networking and developer experience to create sustainable engineering foundations. [Suggested]

• Embed AI-assisted engineering practices into software development, identifying opportunities to improve productivity, code quality, testing and knowledge sharing while encouraging responsible, transparent and inclusive AI usage.

• Collaborate with purpose, take ownership of technical outcomes, see initiatives through from insight to impact and adapt approaches with an agile mindset while modelling Bumble values of Courage and Respect.

About You

• Typically requires 10+ years of experience, though we welcome candidates with alternative backgrounds that demonstrate equivalent skills.

• Extensive experience designing, building and shipping high-quality native iOS applications at scale.

• Deep expertise in Swift, with advanced knowledge of UIKit and significant production experience using SwiftUI.

• Proven experience designing scalable application architectures, including patterns such as MVVM, TCA, VIPER or equivalent architectures supporting large, complex codebases. [Suggested]

• Strong understanding of iOS concurrency, including async/await, Grand Central Dispatch, memory management and performance optimisation.

• Experience building resilient networking layers, integrating RESTful APIs, improving application performance and delivering highly accessible, localised mobile experiences. [Suggested]

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams through architectural leadership, collaboration and mentoring rather than formal people management.

• Comfortable evaluating and adopting AI-powered engineering tools, applying sound judgement to ensure outputs are accurate, secure, inclusive and aligned with engineering best practices while helping others develop AI fluency.

• You embody Bumble's values of Curiosity, Excellence and Respect, working collaboratively, taking ownership and helping teams deliver meaningful impact.

Why join us?

• Own meaningful projects that directly impact millions of Bumble users.
• Learn and grow in a high-performing engineering team committed to mentorship and learning.
• Be part of a culture that values respect, excellence, curiosity, courage and joy.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, equity, and world-class benefits.

Location

• This role is based in Austin, and 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.
• We have a hybrid environment that requires you to be in the office Monday - Wednesday.
• Please note: We are unable to offer Visa sponsorship at this time

About Us

Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble Date, BFF, and Badoo. 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) and friendship (BFF). BFF is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections and community based on shared interests. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products.

AI Fluency

AI is important to us. We're excited by people who are curious and experimental, and who think thoughtfully about how AI can amplify their impact and outcomes.

We encourage you to use AI responsibly as you prepare your application. Please don't use it to fabricate experiences or answer questions live in interviews. We care deeply about authenticity and want to understand your real skills, judgment and voice, because building a meaningful, genuine connection with you matters to us.

Final Compensation

Will be determined based on factors such as the selected candidate's qualifications, relevant experience, skill set, and other job-related considerations.

Benefits & Perks

Insurance: Medical/dental/vision, 30-day eligibility. Bumble has multiple competitive offerings that will be available to you on the first of the month following date of hire.

Unlimited PTO + 1 company-wide week off + Focus Fridays every week

Fully paid life and long-term disability insurance

401k 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 + 26 week paid parental leave

Premium App Access

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.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her, he/him, they/them, etc).

AI in Bumble Inc. Hiring

At Bumble, we may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process - such as helping us record, transcribe, and summarize conversations, and supporting job alignment by comparing resumes and job descriptions to highlight skills and potential roles that may be a good match. These tools help us work more efficiently and stay focused on you during our conversations. Importantly, all hiring decisions are made by people. AI is used only to support our team's efficiency and improve the candidate experience - not to evaluate or decide on your candidacy. Participation in AI-supported interviews and conversations is completely voluntary and will not impact your candidacy. If you'd prefer to opt out, simply let your recruiter or interviewer know at the start of a call, or anytime during the interview or conversation. Summaries and related data are retained only as long as needed in line with our internal data retention policies. If at any point you'd like a transcription or summary deleted, please contact your recruiter directly.

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