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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.

Introduction

Bumble is seeking an expert PHP Engineer to help in the ongoing development of our large-scale mobile and web applications backend. This role will be focused on backend coding and database design. Millions of our users will see the results of your work every day, so we pay special attention to the performance and reliability of our system.

What you’ll do

• Participate in a creation of a very large scale backend API (PHP/MySQL/NoSQL, millions of active users, thousands of servers, over 50k requests per seconds for PHP backend) and see the results of your efforts in a matter of days

• Optimise backend code, look for bottlenecks and, as and when necessary, implement visualisation and monitoring systems

• Suggest and implement high-tech, 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 and design databases (no client-side coding required)

About you:

• Proven backend development experience

• Computer Science/Tech related degree is highly desirable.

• Experience in JVM languages is a bonus, especially building Service-oriented architecture

• Words like caching, sharding, replication, reliability are familiar to you or you should be able to learn them quickly

• Strong will to learn new stuff

• Knowledge of *nix console environment

• Understanding how to optimise and fine-tune backend application that uses MySQL or other external data sources

• Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL

• Excellent knowledge of PHP, weak and strong points of this language

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.