head of engineering for a dating app

PersonalInvest; United States; Remoto; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

28 Days paid vacation

Annual team workation trip to Thailand

Training and gear compensation

Just refi bonus: $1,000

Full refi bonus: $3,000

Descrizione del lavoro

PersonalInvest ищет опытного руководителя инженерии для определения и реализации backend-архитектуры масштабируемого мобильного приложения. Вы будете вести команду старших инженеров и DevOps, формировать дорожную карту, принимать архитектурные решения и развивать процессы доставки ПО.

Кандидат должен сочетать кодинг и управленческие навыки, уметь работать с распределенными командами и быстро принимать решения, обеспечивая безопасность и соответствие требованиям.

Competenze

• Опыт 8+ лет бэкенд разработки в продакшн-средах.
• Опыт руководства инженерной командой и управления персоналом.
• Опыт владения архитектурой бэкенда для мобильного приложения.
• Умение быстро принимать решения и общаться на английском.

Mansioni

• Взять на себя видение backend-архитектуры компании и дорожную карту.
• Управлять командой из нескольких старших инженеров и DevOps, проводить 1:1, найм, увольнение, оценку.
• Развивать архитектуру и инфраструктуру для масштабирования на миллионы пользователей.
• Определять требования к производительности, кэшированию и распределенным системам.
• Обеспечить качество кода, процессы CI/CD и безопасность.
• Проводить анализ и оптимизацию узких мест в производительности и данным потоком.

Conoscenze

Backend development

Team leadership

Architecture

Distributed systems

English communication

Hands-on coding

Strumenti

Kubernetes

Terraform

Descrizione del lavoro

Описание:

PersonalInvest operates a dating app focused on helping people connect on their own terms. It has over 17 million users worldwide and ranked among the top 10 most-downloaded dating apps in the U.S. last year.

Задачи:

• Own and drive the company’s backend technical vision, architecture, and long-term scalability plans
• Manage four senior backend engineers and oversee one to two DevOps engineers, including 1:1s, hiring, firing, performance, and growth
• Take ownership of the full technical team over time, growing to approximately 15 members
• Translate product goals into technical roadmaps, sprint plans, and engineering priorities
• Make architectural decisions on performance, infrastructure, reliability, and scaling for millions of users
• Establish and improve engineering processes, code quality standards, and deployment pipelines
• Address performance bottlenecks, data flow, caching strategies, and infrastructure decisions
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team, including code generation, review, testing, and tooling
• Review code and contribute hands‑on
• Run and support A/B testing and experimentation infrastructure for approximately five experiments per week
• Ensure API speed, uptime, data accuracy, and architectural consistency
• Design backend systems for scale, resilience, and fast iteration
• Implement security and privacy best practices

Требования:

• At least 8 years of backend development experience in production environments
• Experience leading engineering teams with ownership of hiring, firing, performance reviews, and team structure
• Experience at Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or CTO level, or equivalent ownership of people and systems
• Recent experience building or running engineering at a startup with fewer than 50 people
• Experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app
• Still writes code and wants to; not looking to become a full-time manager
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain trade-offs, align stakeholders, and lead engineering discussions across a distributed EU and Asia team
• Experience scaling backend systems to high traffic, with 10,000+ DAUs and ideally much higher
• Experience driving technical planning, sprints, and feature delivery
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, databases, caching, and performance optimization
• Decisive and able to make decisions quickly
• Not a fit for enterprise or big-company veterans who managed 50+ people and have not touched code in years, process-heavy operators who want to install Jira workflows before shipping, or people who need to be told what to build
• Communicates clearly and confidently in English
• Has a “let’s get it DONE” mindset, is obsessively detail-oriented, and enjoys sharing ideas and building things together
• Будет плюсом: Ruby on Rails experience, experience in B2C startups (mobile, social, marketplace, etc.), a strong product mindset, Terraform / IaC familiarity, Kubernetes in production

Условия:

• B2B cooperation
• Just refi bonus: $1,000
• Full refi bonus: $3,000
• 28 Days of paid vacation
• Compensation for training and gear
• Annual team workation trip to Thailand or Indonesia