Backend Engineering Manager
US$219,000 – US$263,000 / yr base salary
Posted 28 Apr 2026
Advertised as “Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Recommendations”
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$219,000 – US$263,000 / yr |
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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 millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role At Hinge, the recommendation engine is a central part of our product. Every interaction users have with each other on our app begins with the systems your team builds and owns. As the engineering manager of this team, you will help drive the strategy and execution behind the infrastructure and features that power our recommendations. You’ll work closely with machine learning engineers, product managers, data scientists, and data engineers to build systems that balance personalization, fairness, and user experience at scale, from low-latency match-serving pipelines to the candidate retrieval and ranking systems that determine who users see and when.
Our ability to provide good recommendations is central to achieving trust, engagement, and, most importantly, whether people can find who they’re looking for on Hinge.
Responsibilities
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Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6-8 engineers building recommendation services
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Partner with ML to productionize recommendation models and ensure low-latency, high-availability serving infrastructure
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Own the technical roadmap for the recommender platform, balancing new capabilities with reliability and performance improvements
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Drive architecture decisions for recommendation and search infrastructure
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Establish and maintain engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, and incident response
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Collaborate with Product, Design, and cross-functional engineering teams to define and deliver product-facing recommendation features
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Manage hiring, performance reviews, career development, and team culture
What We're Looking For
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8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role
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Strong backend systems expertise – you've built or operated large-scale distributed systems in production
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Experience with recommendation systems, search ranking, personalization, or adjacent ML-serving infrastructure