Director of Engineering, Platform

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

At Hinge, the Platform mission is to enable faster, safer delivery for our entire technology organization. We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to oversee and expand the teams within our platform engineering group. As the Director of Platform Engineering, you will oversee three teams: Core Platform(2) and Notifications Platform. Initially, these teams will report directly to you, with the expectation that you will hire or mentor managers to lead and grow these teams as they evolve.

Platform engineering is essential at Hinge; and the team is growing to meet the needs of the organization. We’re looking for a seasoned platform leader to shape the future of platform engineering at Hinge.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and grow a team of engineers and managers, fostering a collaborative, empathetic, and high-performing work environment. Focus on building a healthy team culture that aligns with the needs of users.
• Platform Engineering Excellence: Define and continuously improve core metrics for platform engineering.
• Ownership of Core Engineering Functions: Own observability, CI/CD, core infrastructure abstractions, and shared tooling.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to prioritize feature development and engineering investments. Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure platform engineering initiatives are aligned with broader business goals.
• Vision and Strategy: Develop and drive the long-term strategic vision for platform engineering, ensuring the team is well-positioned to meet future challenges and opportunities.
• Innovation: Stay current on engineering best practices and trends. Lead the team in continuously refining strategies, processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and innovation within platform engineering.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams
• 10+ years of experience in software development with distributed production systems at scale
• Experience building DevOps tooling and processes, with knowledge of site reliability and product engineering
• Ability to facilitate technical decision-making, even outside your domain expertise
• The Hinge team programs in Go, Swift, Kotlin, and ReactJS and we build on Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, AWS, Prometheus, Grafana, Vault, and CircleCI. While you don’t need to be an expert in all of these, we are looking for familiarity with these or similar tools.

As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy:

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 & 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 $10,000 toward 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+, Vibras, Women/Nonbinary, Parents, and Remote—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 contact [email protected]. 

Note: We will only respond to inquiries regarding accommodations and if you have any questions about your job application, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner directly.