Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Recommendations

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6-8 engineers building recommendation services
• Partner with ML to productionize recommendation models and ensure low-latency, high-availability serving infrastructure
• Own the technical roadmap for the recommender platform, balancing new capabilities with reliability and performance improvements
• Drive architecture decisions for recommendation and search infrastructure
• Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and incident response
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to define and deliver product-facing recommendation features
• Manage hiring, performance reviews, career development, and team culture

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role
• Strong backend systems expertise - you've built or operated large-scale distributed systems in production
• Experience with recommendation systems, search ranking, personalization, or adjacent ML-serving infrastructure
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (ideally Go)
• Familiarity with data processing architectures, feature stores, and model-serving technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, etc)
• Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams
• Ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

• Experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch) or MLOps tooling (MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow)
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Background in A/B testing and experimentation platforms
• Prior work at scale (millions of daily active users or equivalent throughput)

$219,000 - $263,000 a year
Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.
As a member of our team, you'll enjoy:
401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you've been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.
Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you're eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)
Fertility Support: You'll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates- Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.
ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)-Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, R aices , Women/Nonbinary, Parents -that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.
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Empathy: We deeply consider the perspective of others.
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