Senior Backend Engineering Manager (Recommendations)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineering Manager (Recommendations): Leading a team to build and scale infrastructure for recommendation engines with an accent on personalization, fairness, and low-latency match-serving pipelines. Focus on productionizing ML models, driving architecture for search infrastructure, and mentoring a high-performing engineering team.

Location: Hybrid in New York, NY

Salary: $219,000 - $263,000 a year

Company

hirify.global is a dating app designed to inspire intimate connections and create a less lonely world through data-driven matchmaking.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6-8 engineers building recommendation services.
• Partner with ML teams 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.
• Drive architecture decisions for recommendation and search infrastructure.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and incident response.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to define and deliver product-facing recommendation features.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role.
• Strong expertise in building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Experience with recommendation systems, search ranking, personalization, or ML-serving infrastructure.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages, ideally Go.
• Familiarity with data processing architectures and technologies like Kafka, Spark, and ElasticSearch.
• Must be located in New York, NY for a hybrid work arrangement.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% 401(k) matching up to $10,000 per year.
• Annual Learning & Development stipend and free Udemy access from day one.
• 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for both birth and non-birth parents.
• Comprehensive fertility support and preservation stipends via Carrot.
• $100 monthly date stipend and free hirify.global Premium memberships.
• Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) supporting diversity and inclusion.