Backend Engineering Manager III

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted

In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role

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Hinge is seeking an experienced Backend Engineering Manager to join our team and play a critical role in shaping users' dating journeys. Your team will be responsible for the backend services that drive user accounts, profiles, actions, and notifications. 

As a Backend Engineering Manager, you'll contribute significantly to establishing and nurturing team processes that foster teamwork and clear communication. You’ll collaborate closely with a diverse group, including direct reports, technical leads, data scientists, engineers, engineering managers, and product managers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop an engineering roadmap for your team that supports both short and long term product goals.
• Identify technical gaps and opportunities in the team’s ownership domain by staying plugged into developments in the broader tech industry and in your team’s codebase.
• Monitor Backend systems to continuously evaluate their performance, ensuring that these systems are meeting the demands of the business.
• Contribute to the architecture of your team’s systems
• Communicate effectively to audiences of various technical and non-technical backgrounds.
• Own the effectiveness of the backend UserCore engineering team by managing the portfolio of technical skills on the team, and providing coaching/mentoring/feedback for IC’s.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

What We're Looking For:

• Strong programming skills: Prior experience with Go is preferred, but we're open to strong proficiency in popular languages like Python, C#, Java, Kotlin, Typescript/JS. The ability to quickly understand and navigate an established code base.
• System design & architecture: Ability to quickly understand and navigate an established code base, familiarity with common cloud infrastructure services (e.g. queues, k-v stores, relational data stores) and distributed system concepts (e.g. state machine replication, etc.), experience designing and building scalable web applications in a microservice architecture.
• Cloud platform proficiency: Ability to utilize common cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Effective collaborator: You can to work effectively on teams and communicate complex technical ideas clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Strong written communication: Ability to communicate complex ideas and technical knowledge through writing. 
• Innovative Leadership: Team-first leadership and a tendency to help teams work efficiently get stuff done. A track record of leading projects through completion, and proactively solves problems when they present themselves. 
• 6+ years of industry experience in an IC software engineer/developer role.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams with at least 4 team members.
• 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud services with either AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience building software applications that involve significant amounts of data processing and throughput.

Salary Range

$191,500.00 - $229,500.00 per year salary

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.