Senior Android Engineer (Mobile Design System)

Bumble is looking for a Senior Android Engineer to join our Mobile Design System team and help empower fellow Android engineers, as well as wider mobile teams, to deliver an amazing experience to our end users. You’ll be joining a team of experienced native iOS and Android engineers, along with a group of talented designers who are unstoppable when it comes to creating great UI for our end users.

The Mobile Design System sits within our Mobile Platform Group, which is core to enabling the success of Bumble, Badoo, and BFF Apps. The group provides mobile engineering teams with industry-leading, highly reliable, and fit-for-purpose frameworks, tools, services, and integrations for development, deployment, and quality control.

The Mobile Design System team develops and maintains a scalable Design System that seamlessly integrates across our mobile applications. The engineers on the team educate others on UI best practices, lead the evolution of the Design System, its patterns and principles, and continuously explore opportunities to improve efficiency and satisfaction for our customer teams.

What You’ll Do

Explore the latest practices and tools to build a comprehensive and scalable Design System

Adopt AI tools to accelerate the transition from design to prototype and enable experimentation with production-ready code

Participate in the development and evolution of our UI approach, integrating it with our Android architecture

Create and maintain shareable UI components, including Atoms, Molecules, and Organisms of the Design System

Support and enhance the Design System infrastructure, including the Playground app, tokens and assets deployment pipeline, VRT tools, and more

Work closely with designers to define, establish, and review component specifications for the Design System

Collaborate closely with customer teams to ensure seamless integration and adoption

About You

5+ years of professional experience building and shipping production Android applications

Up to date with the latest Compose and Android trends

Experienced in working with Jetpack Compose

Understanding of design patterns and Object-Oriented Programming

Good communication skills, strong team-working capability, and a desire to learn and grow

Passion for collaborating with other developers and enhancing their efficiency through your contributions

Attention to detail, structural thinking, and a passion for software design

You are excited about change

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.

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.

For further information on how we hold and manage your data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function, level, and geographic location. This position is also typically eligible to participate in our short- and long-term incentive programs. Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) match, Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy.

Maven Fertility: $10,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, abortion care, and more. 26 Weeks Parental Leave: For both primary and secondary caregivers. Family & Compassionate Leave: Inclusive of domestic violence recovery. Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need. Company-wide Week Off: Annual collective rest for the entire company. Focus Fridays: No meetings, emails, or deadlines - just deep work.