We are looking for an Engineering Manager who will be a critical component to the success of the Platform Data Engineering team. You will be a force multiplier; mentoring engineers, advancing best practices, and delivering components for an actual distributed big data architecture while concentrating on real-world problems.

This role is key to the success of Hinge. Not only will you help power the love lives of tons of people, but you will play a critical part in the functioning of every team at Hinge, with stakeholders ranging from technical leadership to product to customer experience.

As an Engineering Manager working on our data infrastructure, you can expect to implement a modern data pipeline, mentor a thriving technical team, and continue to develop your data engineering expertise through engaging projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for your team. You can expect to spend over 40% of your time writing code and architecting systems for scale.
• Work with our Engineering teams to ensure data is flowing accurately through data creation to our presentation layers.
• Become an advocate for our data infrastructure by developing and championing Data Engineering practices with the team and with the company at large.
• Create essential pieces of the pipeline.
• Improve our data infrastructure through containerization, data modeling, developing our ETL pipelines, and more. 
• Work with stakeholders and translate their needs and expectations into action items and deliverables.
• Assess opportunities for ways data infrastructure could be utilized to support the data organization.
• Lead infrastructure initiatives; from design to implementation to delivery.
• Participate in our on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Expertise in Python, SQL, DevOps, and databases.
• Experience utilizing multiple programming paradigms, specifically functional and object-oriented.
• 5+ years of data engineering industry experience.1+ years of experience managing engineers.
• Capability to drive initiatives and articulate their value to Engineering and other stakeholders.
• Excited to build a superb team culture and the capability to inspire.
• Experience delivering data products from conception to delivery.
• Great communication skills (written/verbal).Passionate about designing elegant data pipelines.
• Familiarity with our stack: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Airflow, Hive, dbt, Looker, and AWS technologies (S3, Redshift), CI/CD technologies (CircleCI).
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Scrum.

Our Company:

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted. In today’s digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they’re not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. On Hinge, there are no rules, timers, or games. Instead, you’ll have unique conversations over the text, photos, and audio you’ve shared on your profile. And it’s resonating with daters. Hinge was the fastest-growing dating app in the US, UK, Canada and Australia in 2019 and 2020.

Our Culture:

- Authenticity: Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly. 

- Courage: Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism.

- Empathy: Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.