Director of Engineering, Hinge
Core Services
$252-302.5k
Dating app for meaningful relationships
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Dating app for meaningful relationships
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$252-302.5k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in software engineering, including experience leading managers and senior engineers across backend, platform, or infrastructure domains
- A strong track record building internal platforms or shared services that other engineering teams depend on
- Excellent judgment about what should become a platform, what should remain local to a team, and when standardization creates more value than flexibility
- Experience leading through influence in multi-team environments where success depends on trust, clarity, and strong cross-functional partnership
- Strong technical depth in backend systems and distributed architecture, with the ability to guide direction and pressure-test designs at a system level
- A history of improving how teams build: through shared abstractions, better engineering practices, stronger platform contracts, or more durable operating models
- Strong people leadership, including coaching leaders, developing talent, and building healthy, high-accountability teams
- Clear communication and a practical, low-ego approach to coordination and decision-making
What the job involves
- Core Services is the shared engineering layer between Hinge’s product features and infrastructure. The pillar is responsible for the product platforms and backend capabilities that multiple teams should be able to build on directly
- We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the Core Services pillar within Platform. This role owns the long-range direction of the pillar while ensuring the teams and leaders within it are effective, aligned, and executing well
- You will help Hinge identify which cross-team needs should become shared platforms, drive adoption of the platforms we build, and raise the bar for backend engineering across the company
- This is a platform leadership role with broad cross-functional reach. You will contribute at the Platform group level, coordinate closely with adjacent pillars, and help shape a more coherent approach to shared product and backend capabilities across Hinge
- Lead the Core Services pillar strategy: define what we build, what we extract into shared platforms, what stays with product teams, and how the work ladders up to Hinge’s broader platform strategy
- Own team health and execution across the pillar: ensure teams have clear charters, strong roadmaps, healthy backlogs, visible tradeoffs, and reliable operating rhythms
- Coach engineering managers and senior technical leaders across the pillar, helping them raise the quality of strategy, execution, and people leadership
- Drive measurable outcomes from the platforms the pillar owns, with a focus on adoption, internal customer value, and long-term leverage rather than launches alone
- Identify cross-feature patterns worth turning into durable shared capabilities, especially in backend and product-platform areas where standardization creates outsized leverage
- Strengthen the shared backend platform by improving the libraries, patterns, and platform contracts that product teams rely on
- Partner across Platform and with product engineering leaders to make ownership clear, reduce coordination tax, and keep cross-team work moving
- Contribute to Platform group strategy and investment decisions by surfacing emerging patterns, friction, and opportunities across the org
- Raise the backend engineering bar through practical systems, technical judgment, and strong examples rather than governance alone
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that stands out by prioritizing meaningful relationships over casual hookups. Designed for people seeking long-term commitments, it moves away from the typical "swipe" approach popularized by apps like Tinder. Instead, Hinge emphasizes detailed profiles and compatibility-based recommendations so users can make deeper, more genuine connections.
Back in 2019, half of single people in the US had never tried a dating app. Fast forward to today, and online dating is just part of the norm. Hinge has carved out its place in this market by focusing on long-term meaningful relationships and is certainly meeting the growing demand for companionship while riding the wave of the online dating trend.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and with online dating becoming the mainstream, Hinge looks pretty set to stay at the top.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid and Remote Work: If you're hybrid, you'll come in three times a week. We host our biweekly All-Hands meetings on Wednesdays (often with sweet treats).
- Dating: Experience what our users experience. All US-based Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates. Hinge Premium is also free for all employees and their loved ones.
- Retirement Benefits: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
- Health Insurance: high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
- Paid Time Off: 20 accruable vacation days annually. Plus 1 floating holiday, 10 wellness days, 1 community service day, and a generous company holiday calendar. PTO increases with tenure after 2 years with the company.
- 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). We also subsidize fertility care and preservation services.
- Wellness: We subsidize OneMedical, ClassPass, and CitiBike memberships. You and your dependents also have access to individual therapy, group therapy, and coaching services through Modern Health.
- Professional Growth: receive a $3,000 annual Learning & Development stipend after three months, along with free access to Udemy, an online marketplace with over 6,000 courses, starting on your first day.
- Meals: Receive a $30 weekly Seamless credit. In the NYC office, we offer plenty of options for snacks and drinks. Plus, free catered lunches in the office Tuesday through Thursday. In-office lunch varies by location.
- Community Service: We match charitable donations dollar for dollar to a maximum of $15,000 per employee, and give every US-based employee 1 day off for community service annually.
- Commuting: Every US-based hybrid employee gets a $125 monthly commuter subsidy to use for public transportation, parking, bike maintenance and storage, and more.
- Pets: Feel free to bring your best friend to work with you to the NYC office. For US-based employees, we’ll provide pet insurance for your furry family members, too.
- Legal Coverage: You’ll receive low cost access to legal coverage that covers custody and support matters, divorce, real estate and home ownership, tenancy issues, tax issues, wills and estate planning, and more.
- 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.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Jackie Jantos
(CEO)Previously Advisor at Dashlane, VP of Global & Creative at Spotify, Global Creative & Content Director at Coca Cola and was a Partner at Ogilvy & Mather.
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