Senior Engineering Manager

Job Summary

The full-time Senior Engineering Manager will lead the backend team responsible for building the retrieval and ranking infrastructure for recommender systems, collaborating closely with the Machine Learning team to enhance user experience in a remote environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing backend team specializing in recommender systems
• Own reliable, low-latency production systems and manage observability and incident response for recommendations
• Create and execute a technical strategy focused on product intuition and user experience

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing engineers, including hiring and performance management
• Experience leading or building production recommender systems at scale
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users
• Expertise in Go, Java/JVM, or similar backend languages; Postgres, and AWS/GCP, and Kubernetes