Senior Engineering Manager, Enablement

Hinge; New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Matching

Learning and development stipend

Parental Leave

Fertility support

Date stipend

ERGs

Job summary

Hinge, the dating app designed to be deleted, seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Engineering Enablement within Platform. You will shape strategy, roadmaps, and execution across developer tooling, CI/CD, and AI-native capabilities, partnering with product teams to deliver measurable improvements in velocity and quality.

You will manage engineers, drive adoption, and champion durable, user-centric platform solutions while balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform health and

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and driving technical direction as a senior leader.
• Strong product instincts for internal platforms with focus on user value and measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to improve developer workflows, productivity, and quality systems.
• Deep technical depth in developer tooling, CI/CD, distributed systems, and async/event-driven architectures.
• Ability to balance near-term delivery with long-term platform investments and quality.
• Proven people leadership including coaching, performance management, and development of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Enablement strategy to boost developer velocity, quality, and effectiveness.
• Own roadmap and execution; drive priorities to closure and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Build and improve tools, workflows, and platform capabilities for faster, safer software development.
• Treat internal platform work as a product; understand user needs and measure adoption and impact.
• Advance AI-native bets and ensure validation infrastructure supports rapid yet safe progress.
• Raise engineering standards through architecture and design participation.
• Grow and manage engineers, including hiring, coaching, and development of leaders.
• Collaborate with Platform and product engineering to keep work legible and coordinated.
• Clearly represent Engineering Enablement’s role and value across the org.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product intuition

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Architectural judgement

Education

Bachelor's or MS in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Distributed systems

Observability tooling

AI-native tooling

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 tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role

Engineering Enablement helps engineering teams build faster, more safely, and with less friction. The team owns the tools, workflows, and platform capabilities that improve developer velocity, quality, and confidence across the product development lifecycle, with a growing focus on AI-native tooling. That includes Hinge's agent platform, the foundation for building and operating AI agents across the development lifecycle, alongside the CI/CD pipeline, developer-facing observability, and the tooling that makes spinning up services and internal tools frictionless. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Engineering Enablement within Platform. This role owns the team's strategy, roadmap, and execution while ensuring the work delivers meaningful value to engineering teams across the company. You will identify the highest‑leverage opportunities to improve how engineers build, test, validate, and adopt platform capabilities, and you will lead the team that turns those opportunities into durable systems and practices. This is a hands‑on platform leadership role with broad cross‑functional reach. You will partner closely with product engineering teams and adjacent platform teams to ensure Engineering Enablement is building the right capabilities, driving adoption, and improving outcomes rather than just shipping tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Engineering Enablement team strategy: define the highest-leverage opportunities to improve developer velocity, quality, and engineering effectiveness.
• Own the team's roadmap and execution: make priorities clear, drive decisions to closure, and ensure the team is delivering against meaningful outcomes.
• Build and improve the tools, workflows, and platform capabilities that help engineers develop, test, validate, and ship software more effectively.
• Treat internal platform work as a product: understand user needs, shape the right solutions, drive adoption, and measure success through velocity and quality improvements.
• Advance the team's AI-native bets: make Hinge's codebase and systems operable by agents, and build the validation infrastructure that lets faster development translate into faster, safe product impact.
• Raise the technical bar on the team through strong engineering judgment, clear standards, and credible involvement in architecture and design discussions.
• Grow and manage the engineers on the team, including coaching, performance management, hiring, and development of future technical and people leaders.
• Partner across Platform and with product engineering leaders to make shared work legible, coordinated, and effective.
• Represent Engineering Enablement clearly to the broader engineering organization: what it owns, what it enables, and how teams should engage with it.

What We're Looking For

A track record of leading engineering teams, or equivalent experience driving execution and technical direction as a senior technical leader.

Strong product instincts for internal platforms, with a clear focus on user value, adoption, and measurable outcomes.

Experience improving developer workflows, engineering productivity, quality systems, build and release processes, or related platform capabilities.

Strong technical depth across some combination of developer tooling, CI/CD, distributed systems, async and event-driven systems (streaming, workflow orchestration, queues), testing, or engineering productivity infrastructure.

The ability to balance near‑term delivery with longer‑term platform investment and technical quality.

Strong people leadership, including direct feedback, coaching, performance management, and development of engineers at different levels.

Comfort working across team boundaries and driving progress through partnership, clarity, and influence.

A practical, outcome-oriented mindset and a bias toward making engineers more effective through simple, durable solutions.

Salary Range

$219,000.00 - $263,000.00 per year salary

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 a $3,000 annual Learning and 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 6,000 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 and your spouse/domestic partner will get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, which offers convenient access to a range of fertility care options. We offer up to $15,000 to assist with covering fertility expenses, including basic treatments and fertility preservation.
• Date Stipend: Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates – romantic or otherwise. HingeX is also free for employees and their loved ones.
• ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents, and Remote—that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization and its community.