Engineering Manager

Dating Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 28 calendar days/year

Wellness days

Referral bonus up to $5000

Training reimbursement 50%

English lessons discount

Health benefits up to $1000/year

Workplace cost reimbursement up to $1,

Merchandise and team events bonus

Job summary

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is seeking anEngineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team of 7–10 engineers across backend, frontend, QA, and AQA. You will own end-to-end feature delivery from requirements to release and drive the development process, including sprint planning and DoR/DoD.

You will collaborate with Product Management to prioritize backlog and ensure service reliability through monitoring, incident reviews, and postmortems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of commercial development experience in .NET / Java / Python.
• 1+ year of experience leading a cross-functional team.
• Understanding of microservice architecture: REST / gRPC, RabbitMQ / Kafka.
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing (ELK, Grafana, DataDog or similar).
• Agile practices (Scrum / Kanban).

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of 7–10 engineers (backend, frontend, QA, AQA).
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, from requirements to release.
• Run the team’s development process: sprint planning, estimation, decomposition, DoR/DoD.
• Take part in feature design and technical decision-making.
• Ensure the reliability of the team’s services: monitoring, alerting, incident reviews, postmortems.
• Partner with the Product Manager on backlog prioritization.

Skills

Backend languages: .NET/Java/Python

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Microservice architecture

Observability tools

Tools

ELK

Grafana

DataDog

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies. SDG solves the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection - transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. SDG’s products redefine the way people interact and connect with one another.

Our portfolio includes social entertainment platforms designed to connect people online across different cultures and regions of the world.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals who specialize in creating and developing globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of digital nomads works remotely from all over the world.

We’re proud to be a two-time “Great Place to Work” winner (USA & Japan, 2024–2025) and a Top-5 Company for Work-From-Anywhere Jobs (FlexJobs, 2025).

We are looking for Engineering Manager.

Your main tasks will be:

• Lead a cross-functional team of 7–10 engineers (backend, frontend, QA, AQA)
• Own end-to-end feature delivery, from requirements to release
• Run the team’s development process: sprint planning, estimation, decomposition, DoR/DoD
• Take part in feature design and technical decision-making
• Ensure the reliability of the team’s services: monitoring, alerting, incident reviews, postmortems
• Partner with the Product Manager on backlog prioritization

We expect from you:

• 3+ years of commercial development experience (.NET / Java / Python)
• 1+ year of experience leading a cross-functional team
• Understanding of microservice architecture: REST / gRPC, RabbitMQ / Kafka
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing (ELK, Grafana, DataDog or similar)
• Agile practices (Scrum / Kanban)

Nice to have:

• Understanding of frontend architecture (React) and mobile development (React Native)
• Knowledge of QA processes and test automation

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time;
• The initial pay level or pay range for this role will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process and before the commencement of employment;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• 50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for our merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.