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Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Recommendations

Match Group· Hinge – Engineering
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Hybrid (New York, NY)$219k - $263kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior engineering manager leading the team responsible for Hinge's recommendation engine, driving strategy and execution for infrastructure and features powering recommendations, collaboration with ML, data, and product teams to balance personalization, fairness, and user experience at scale.

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

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • 4+ years in an engineering management role
  • Strong backend systems expertise – 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

Skills

Required:Backend developmentRecommendation systems / ML-serving infrastructureGo (Golang)

Benefits

  • 401(k) Matching: 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax contributions up to $10,000 per year
  • Professional Growth: annual Learning & Development stipend after three months; Udemy access starting day one
  • Parental Leave & Planning: 20 paid weeks of parental leave (birth and non-birth parents)
  • Fertility Support: fertility care via Carrot and stipend toward fertility preservation
  • Date Stipend: $100 monthly for dates; Hinge Premium free for employees and loved ones
  • ERGs: eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for community support
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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