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Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Recommendations
$219K–$263K
New York, New York · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Apr 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering management.
About the job
Leads the engineering team and strategy for Hinge’s recommendation platform, building scalable infrastructure and features that personalize who users see while balancing fairness, reliability, and user experience.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6–8 engineers, including hiring and career development.
- Own the technical roadmap and architecture for recommendation and search infrastructure; partner with ML to productionize models and provide low-latency, high-availability serving.
- Set engineering standards and collaborate across functions to deliver recommendation features and improve reliability, performance, and incident response.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years in an engineering management role.
- Strong backend systems expertise, including building or operating 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; track record of developing high-performing teams and communicating technical trade-offs.
Nice to have
- Experience with ML frameworks or MLOps tooling.
- Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration experience; A/B testing or work at scale also welcomed.
Pay
USD 219,000–263,000 per year base salary
Tools
Go, Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow, Kubeflow
AI focus
Partners with ML to productionize recommendation models and build recommendation systems involving candidate retrieval, ranking, personalization, and model serving.
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