Senior Kotlin/Java Engineer

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Bumble has just celebrated its 10th anniversary and we recognise the importance of evolving our technology. We're committed to investing in modernising our tech stack by transforming from a monolithic architecture to microservices. Join our team and help us shape the future of our platform.

We are looking for a talented Senior Kotlin/Java Engineer to own and drive technical projects from specification to delivery, and beyond. You will impact millions of users, share know-how with the community, and experiment extensively. If you get a buzz from taking initiative, and redefining expectations but also getting involved in challenging technical debates with the team, this is your place.

You will join the Registration and Profile team, which owns a core domain of our application. The team's mission is to ensure a seamless user experience from signup to profile view and management. You'll be collaborating with experienced and driven engineers who thrive with technical challenges and value every team member's contribution.

What you'll do

• Collaborate in a domain-based team that plans, defines, and implements together. We don't plan alone nor like silos
• Participate in global application layer design and architecture
• Architect, design and migrate monolithic logic into Kotlin services
• Deliver value incrementally, in small and meaningful steps
• Maintaining high code quality is crucial, and testing is an essential part of our process
• Define, implement, and monitor tracing and observability metrics of our systems
• Contribute to the team's progress and potential through close collaboration and mentoring of other team members
• We use Kotlin, PHP, Kubernetes, Docker, circuit breaker, Prometheus, event streaming systems, and DDD, among others. We're happy to try new technologies depending on the problem that we need to solve

About you

• Experienced and current Kotlin or Java developer learning or willing to learn Kotlin
• Proven experience in building and operating scalable distributed services for real-world use cases for user-facing applications
• A deep understanding of concurrency, resiliency, caching, and HTTP
• Experience working with microservices and an understanding of both pros and cons of monolithic vs. microservice architectures
• Experience handling time-sensitive and/or large data sets
• Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
• Experience or being comfortable with learning PHP to read the existing codebase or even modify it occasionally

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 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.