Lead Backend PHP Engineer
UK London
Engineering – Software Engineering /
Employee - Regular/Permanent /
Hybrid
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Bumble is seeking multiple Lead PHP Engineers to help in the ongoing development of our large-scale mobile and web applications backend.
You could be joining one of the following teams, all of which play an important part in creating a delightful experience for our members;
The Recommendation team is dedicated to curating tailored suggestions, ensuring the right individuals connect with the right audience at the right time by contributing to the continuous advancement and maintenance of our expansive Internal recommendation engine.
The Trust & Safety team is dedicated to catching bad actors and preventing them from harming good users by contributing to the continuous advancement and maintenance of our Trust & Safety ecosystem.
The Core Billing & Payment team is responsible for the development and maintenance of our in-house billing & payment system which processes 100m transactions and doesn’t rely on 3rd party integrations.
The Experimentation team is responsible for maintaining and improving the Experimentation platform that supports the lifecycle of A/B tests and feature flags used by all engineering teams at Bumble Inc. Our overarching goal is to develop a balanced system aligned with business objectives, ensuring each problem domain is addressed comprehensively.
What you’ll do
- Participate in the creation of a large scale backend API, which receives over 50k requests per second and handles millions of concurrent users
- Take ownership and build a strategy for complex components of the system, including making architectural decisions, along with influencing strategy for the whole system
- Launch and support optimisation initiatives, both with code and hardware, and design frameworks for performance monitoring and visualisation
- Suggest and implement cutting-edge, innovative solutions to enhance our backend infrastructure
- Proactively communicate with colleagues, managers, and the wider team to refine application design
- Actively engage in the whole process of development, from initial design to deployment and support
- Write backend code and design databases, focusing on backend logic without client-side coding
- Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of services as part of our larger architectural transformation
About you
- A Computer Science/Tech related degree is highly desirable
- Extensive experience in PHP language
- Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Understanding how to optimise and fine-tune backend application that uses MySQL or other external data sources
- Experience with caching, sharding, replication, reliability and scalability issues
- Knowledge of *nix console environment
- Experience in building large-scale solutions
- Strong collaboration skills
- Proven experience driving big backend projects with multiple people involved
- Strong will to learn new technologies
- Solid communication skills and team-working capability
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.
