Engineering Manager, Backend
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a backend engineering team focused on user safety. You will manage and mentor a small team of engineers, own backend deliverables for an entire line of business, design and build systems at scale, and create a productive work environment for your team.
What you’ll do:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for your team. You can expect to spend over 50% of your time writing code and architecting systems for scale.
- Manage, coach, unblock, and facilitate the growth of a team of engineers.
- Partner with business and engineering leaders to prioritize feature development and engineering investment.
- Improve processes and technical abstractions to increase team productivity.
- Stay current on engineering best practices to guide backend team strategy.
- Work in a modern tech stack: Go, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS.
About you:
- You have 7+ years of experience in software development building APIs at scale
- You have 1+ year of experience managing engineers
- You have experience working in distributed production systems
- You have worked with and have deep knowledge of at least one message or event based technology (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.)
- You can facilitate technical decision-making even in domains where you are not the expert
- You are passionate about building a team culture that focuses on fun, performance, scalability, and security
- You are constantly learning and re-evaluating previous assumptions
- You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
Nice to Have:
- Experience with React and Redux or other frontend frameworks
Our Company:
Hinge is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps. In today’s digital world, singles are so busy matching that they’re not actually connecting, in person, where it counts. Hinge is on a mission to change that. So we built an app that’s designed to be deleted. On Hinge, there are no rules, timers, or games. Instead, you’ll meet your most compatible matches and you’ll have unique conversations over what you’ve shared on your detailed profile. It’s a natural way to find a great first date. Currently, 3 out of 4 first dates lead to second dates, we’re the #1 mobile-first dating app mentioned in the New York Times wedding section, and we’re the fastest growing dating app in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Our Culture:
- Authenticity: Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly.
- Courage: Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism.
- Empathy: Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.