Senior Platform Engineer, Hinge
$177.5-213k
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Open for applications
Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$177.5-213k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help singles build meaningful relationships by connecting in person, helping people to get off dating apps.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience in implementing, configuring and optimizing Kubernetes and Terraform at scale
- Experience in building and troubleshooting large-scale distributed production infrastructure in AWS or GCP
- Demonstrated proficiency in working on CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building global multi-region infrastructure, services, databases and storage
- Experience in on call rotation and responding to incidents
- Has expertise in many or all of the following: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Argo CD, Kafka, Golang/Python or another systems language
What the job involves
- The Platform Engineering team’s mission is to delight our engineers with simple solutions and to advance Hinge’s infrastructure operability. We do so by leading the design and implementation of infrastructure resiliency, expansion, observability, and security improvements. Our impact doesn’t stop there
- We create and operate services that internal teams and customers depend on. As Hinge forges towards a global product offering, we will focus on building the next generation of our Platform
- Some initiatives and problem spaces on the horizon are establishing a global multi-region architecture, mitigating third-party risks, and providing our partner engineering teams with solutions that increase their velocity
- The Platform Engineering team is a crucial cross-functional team that collaborates closely with all engineering disciplines at Hinge. Our work is challenging and impactful in improving the engineering experience. We are searching for a seasoned and motivated Platform Engineer to join our team in solving some of our complex problems in simple ways
- We are searching for a seasoned and motivated Platform Engineer to join our team in solving some of our complex problems in simple ways
- Deliver improvements to our infrastructure, observability, security, and internal tooling across varying problem spaces
- Design, build, and maintain global, highly available, low-latency infrastructure to service the needs of our customers
- Partner internally with teams to improve performance, scalability, reliability and observability of our infrastructure
- Empathetically help teams improve their systems' performance, scalability, reliability, and observability
- Has a keen focus on performance and reliability of infrastructure and takes ownership of solving problems as they arise
- Leave a trail of high-quality technical documentation of initiatives, postmortems, and endeavor to uphold good knowledge-sharing practices
- Impart your domain expertise theoretically and practically
- Join the Platform Engineering on-call rotation
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that sets itself apart from its competitors by focusing on relationships over hookups. It predominantly caters to people looking for long-term commitments. It has abandoned the “swipe” approach that’s often associated with game-like dating apps, such as Tinder, and instead it focuses on in-depth profiles and compatibility recommendations to help users better connect with each other.
In 2019, 50% of single people in the US had never used a dating app. Now, online dating has become part of the new normal, and Hinge’s focus on long-term, meaningful relationships is well-positioned to tap into the current desire for companionship and stability, as well as the growing market trend toward online dating.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and is seeing further success following new capability expansions and acquisition by dating app portfolio Match Group in 2019. All this being said, there is growing concern over fake accounts and fraudulent activity on Hinge, as there is with other competing dating apps. Pricing tiers and more robust regulations for profiles are currently combatting this.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
- 401k plan
- Accrual time off model
- Stocked kitchen
- Monthly date stipend
- Pet friendly
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Authenticity - Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly
- Courage - Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism
- Empathy - Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Justin McLeod
(CEO)Having studied at Colgate University and Harvard Business School, Justin founded Hinge in February 2011. He has served as CEO since.
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