Senior Data Platform Engineer, Hinge
$186-223k
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Dating app for meaningful relationships
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Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$186-223k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of professional/industry experience
- Experience in building, automating, and enhancing tools and frameworks for the data platform to streamline pipeline development
- Experience modeling data sets for different types of sources and business processes
- Strong communication skills (written/verbal)
- Exposure to ML Ops or other data engineering workloads
- Effective analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Experience with the following technologies:
- Programming: Python, Go, Scala, Java
- Cloud platform: The ability to utilize cloud environments such as GCP, AWS, or Azure
- DevOps tooling: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CircleCi, GitHub Actions
- Streaming: Kafka, PubSub, Dataflow
- Databases and Big Data Tooling: Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, dbt
- BI platform: Looker
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer for our Data Platform team, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving our data platform
- We are dedicated to designing, implementing and maintaining Hinge’s data infrastructure, while playing a critical role in selecting and implementing technology that will help Hinge to make data-driven decisions, build a best-in-class product, reporting & analytics, and enable ML/AI use cases
- You will work cross-functionally with multiple engineering teams, providing leadership and advice while serving as a crucial partner to various teams and stakeholders, including Business Intelligence, Product Data Engineering, Data Science, MLE & AI, and more
- You will be making a real impact on the data platform team and will be key to the success of Hinge
- Your work will enable the organization to make data-driven decisions and drive improvements, which will affect the love lives of tons of people
- Design, develop, and maintain core services within Hinge’s data platform
- Build and maintain our lakehouse that provides clean, accurate, and robust data sets to be leveraged for reporting, analytics, and machine learning initiatives
- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing data pipelines and database management frameworks, which include tasks such as automation, monitoring, alerting, governance, and cost optimization
- Work on observability systems that enables holistic system and data quality monitoring
- Solicit and incorporate internal user feedback to ensure productivity tooling meets the needs of our developers
- Work with our data teams to ensure data is flowing accurately through data creation to our presentation layers
- Continue to learn more about the Data Engineering discipline, utilize that knowledge in your deliverables, and identify opportunities to enhance our pipelines
- Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure system reliability, promptly addressing issues to ensure smooth operations
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 emphasized detailed profiles and compatibility-based recommendations so used 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
Justin McLeod
(Founder & 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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