Head of Backend Engineering, Muzz
£100-130k
Plus Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Aldgate, London)
World's largest Muslim dating and marriage app
Open for applications
World's largest Muslim dating and marriage app
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£100-130k
Plus Equity
More information about location
2+ days a week in office (Aldgate, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform how 2 billion Muslims around the world meet and marry.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years in Backend engineering
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Extensive mentoring experience
- Solid architecture experience
- Experience of focusing on business outcome first to quickly make difficult decisions
- Startup experience
- Strong Go experience with focus on event driven services and gRPC
- Strong scripting skills (shell, or Python)
- Strong cloud engineering experience
- Expertise with building on the cloud AWS services – we use over 40 AWS services
- Knowledge across a wide range of compute options such as ECS, EKS and Lambda
- IAM – Experience handling IAM resource permissions
- Networking – fundamental understanding of VPC, subnet routing and gateways
- Storage – strong understanding of S3, EBS and Parquet
- Databases – RDS, DynamoDB
- Experience doing cost estimation in Cost Explorer and planning efficiency changes
- Terraform and containerisation experience
- Understanding of a broad range of protocols like HTTP, TCP, gRPC, DNS etc
Desirable
- GCP experience
- Advanced EC2 knowledge like spot fleets
- Experience with Amazon Neptune and Athena
- Experience with Kinesis or Kafka
- Production Kubernetes experience
- B2C consumer app experience
- Experience with payment providers like Stripe, Google Play, Apple App Store
- Previous experience in dating and/or social media space
- Worked in leadership in a fast scaling business
What the job involves
- Lead a 20+ team of backend + devops engineers
- Drive best practices in our backend stack through the leads
- Work with our Platform Core squad on improving Developer experience to enable us to release features faster, reduce technical debt and increase developer satisfaction
- Work as part of a 3 person engineering leadership team to uncover issues across engineering, agree best practices and solve cross company engineering challenges
- Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence within their area
- Own cross-company initiatives and work with squads to prioritise and deliver
- Be responsible for the uptime and performant running of our entire platform
- Monitor our stack, profile code and optimise code where necessary to reduce resource requirements and cost to run
- Drive efficiency gains reducing the company cloud bill
- Help backend engineers across the company to architect changes to keep things lean and simple
- Stay up to date with new opportunities in the AWS space
- Work with our Data Engineering team to ensure the smooth flow of production data to our data warehouse setup
- Ensure our Incident management process is working well and that we’re learning and growing with every production incident
- Stay hands on writing and reviewing code where needed to help the team out
Application process
- 1. Apply
- 2. Initial chat (video call)
- 3. Technical exercise
- 4. Interview
- 5. Receive an offer!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Muzz is a dating app for Muslims, designed to help people "find their perfect partner while respecting their religious beliefs". Although it appears to operate in a highly competitive space, the Muzz app is unique in catering to those dating to marry, unlike more casual-leaning options such as Tinder.
Formerly known as Muzmatch (the company was forced to switch up its branding after losing a legal battle to match-making giant Match.com), Muzz supplies a modern but tradition-honouring alternative to arranged introductions and family-led courtship. Like most dating apps, it offers both a free and premium "gold" version that comes with advanced capabilities such as unlimited profiles and more in-depth search priorities. Many free features are tailored for Muslim dating, such as the ability to add a chaperone (Wali) to conversations, and religious filters for sect and how much they pray.
As members of the Muslim community continue to embrace more modern dating methods, Muzz has positioned itself well to serve the billions looking for love around the world. Despite its loss in the courts, the company appears positive in its rebrand - even adding new features alongside its new look - and it will be an interesting one to watch as it grows into the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% female employees
Glassdoor (3.7)
Company
Company benefits
- 25 Days holiday + Bank Holidays/National Holidays + option to purchase more holiday
- Hybrid working
- Meaningful equity
- Regular socials - Mini golf, hikes, super competitive Catan nights - we’ve done it all!
- Twice a year we fly the whole global team to somewhere amazing to connect and have fun
Company values
- Here, the leads are approachable, the juniors all get ownership of important things, and together we’re all striving to build something that solves real problems!
Company HQ
Whitechapel, London, UK
Leadership
Shahzad Younas
(Founder + CEO)Left the world of Investment Banking to pursue a career as an Entrepreneur.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Muzz
Shahzad Younas (CEO)
- At Muzz, we believe love knows no bounds. Our app celebrates the incredible diversity of muslim marriage around the world. Just like our success couples, we believe our greatest strength lies in the incredible diversity of our team. We're a vibrant tapestry woven from threads of different ages, genders, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Everyone brings their own rich experience that contributes to the product and team vibe. You can be sure no matter where you come from or what you look like there is a place for you at Muzz.
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