Senior Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems & Backend

Raya; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Raya is an exclusive social network that facilitates meaningful connections among its members. The company fosters a culture built on human connection, empathy, and curiosity with a focus on learning and growth.

We are seeking a backend team leader to build, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering group focused on recommender systems, ensure low-latency production services, and shape a technical strategy aligned with product needs. This role is based in the United States.

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing engineers with hiring, performance management and delivery.
• Experience leading or building production recommender systems at scale.
• Hands-on depth in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Engineering management

Recommender systems

Distributed systems

Hiring & performance

Tools

Elasticsearch

Vector search

Feature stores

Job description

Raya is an exclusive social network that facilitates meaningful connections among its members. The company fosters a culture built on human connection, empathy, and curiosity with a focus on learning and growth.

We are seeking a backend team leader to build, coach, and retain a high-performing engineering group focused on recommender systems, ensure low-latency production services, and shape a technical strategy aligned with product needs. This role is based in the United States.