Senior Data Platform Engineer

Tinder; New York (NY); On-site; USD 186,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Professional growth stipend

Paid parental leave

Fertility support

Date stipend

Job summary

Tinder is looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Data Platform team based in New York City. This role will focus on maintaining and improving our data infrastructure, essential for enabling data-driven decisions. Ideal candidates will have over 4 years of experience and be well-versed in technologies like Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. Additional benefits include 401(k) matching, professional development stipends, and comprehensive parental leave.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional/industry experience.
• Experience in building and automating tools for data platforms.
• Strong communication skills (written/verbal).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Hinge’s data platform core services.
• Build and maintain a lakehouse for clean and accurate data sets.
• Work on observability systems for data quality monitoring.

Skills

Data pipeline development

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Data modeling

Education

Degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redshift

Job description

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

As a Senior Engineer for our Data Platform team, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving our data platform. We are dedicated to designing, implementing and maintaining Hinge’s data infrastructure, while playing a critical role in selecting and implementing technology that will help Hinge to make data-driven decisions, build a best-in-class product, reporting & analytics, and enable ML/AI use cases.

You will work cross-functionally with multiple engineering teams, providing leadership and advice while serving as a crucial partner to various teams and stakeholders, including Business Intelligence, Product Data Engineering, Data Science, MLE & AI, and more.

You will be making a real impact on the data platform team and will be key to the success of Hinge. Your work will enable the organization to make data-driven decisions and drive improvements, which will affect the love lives of tons of people.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core services within Hinge’s data platform.

• Build and maintain our lakehouse that provides clean, accurate, and robust data sets to be leveraged for reporting, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.

• Responsible for maintaining and enhancing data pipelines and database management frameworks, which include tasks such as automation, monitoring, alerting, governance, and cost optimization.

• Work on observability systems that enables holistic system and data quality monitoring

• Solicit and incorporate internal user feedback to ensure productivity tooling meets the needs of our developers.

• Work with our data teams to ensure data is flowing accurately through data creation to our presentation layers.

• Continue to learn more about the Data Engineering discipline, utilize that knowledge in your deliverables, and identify opportunities to enhance our pipelines.

• Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure system reliability, promptly addressing issues to ensure smooth operations.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of professional/industry experience.

• Experience in building, automating, and enhancing tools and frameworks for the data platform to streamline pipeline development.

• Experience modeling data sets for different types of sources and business processes.

• Strong communication skills (written/verbal).

• Exposure to ML Ops or other data engineering workloads.

• Effective analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Experience with the following technologies

• Programming: Python, Go, Scala, Java

• Cloud platform: The ability to utilize cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.

• DevOps tooling: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CircleCi, GitHub Actions

• Streaming: Kafka, PubSub, Dataflow

• Databases and Big Data Tooling: Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, dbt

• BI platform: Looker

$ 186000- $223000 a year

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

Benefits

• 401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.

• Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.

• Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)

• Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.

• Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates– Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.

• ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Races, Women/Nonbinary, Parents that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.

At Hinge, our core values are…

• Authenticity: We share, never hide, our words, actions and intentions.

• Courage: We embrace lofty goals and tough challenges.

• Empathy: We deeply consider the perspective of others.

• Diversity inspires innovation

Hinge is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please let your Talent Acquisition partner know.