Senior Full-Stack Engineer

About Hinge

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted. In today’s digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they’re not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. On Hinge, there are no rules, timers, or games. Instead, you’ll have unique conversations over the text, photos, and audio you’ve shared on your profile. And it’s resonating with daters. Hinge was the fastest-growing dating app in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia in 2019 and 2020.

The Role

We are seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join our team at Hinge. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in developing and maintaining internal tools essential for our Trust & Safety Ops team. Your focus will be on providing our moderation team with the necessary information to make effective decisions for user safety. Collaborating within a cross-disciplinary team, including data engineers, product managers, technical project managers, designers, and QA specialists, you will work closely with the Tech Lead and peers to advance our product and contribute to our engineering community. This role offers the opportunity to do high-impact work, directly contributing to user safety by enabling teams to work more efficiently. Given the current phase of maturity for our internal tools, you will have ample opportunities to shape and expand the product while broadening its scope.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to build features.
• Build tooling and user interfaces for our web application to support Moderation, Appeals, and Support team members in managing users on our platform.
• Design and build backend/frontend features with an emphasis on quality and scalability.
• Own projects end-to-end, and effectively communicate with tech leads, managers, and other stakeholders.
• Work in a cloud-native tech stack: Kubernetes, AWS, Go gRPC/API services, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, React.
• Participate and engage in team ceremonies/processes and our on-call rotation (weeklong alternating with other engineers).

What We're Looking For

• Proficient in coding in one or more backend languages with a preference on Go
• 3+ years experience with architecting RESTful APIs while following best practices
• 2+ years experience with building and maintaining React web applications (Javascript/Typescript, CSS)
• Worked with at least one message or event-based technology (Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.)
• Experience working in distributed production systems
• Familiar with Cloud infrastructure and microservice architecture (such as AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks (Mocha/Jest)
• Knowledgeable of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Clear written & verbal communicator
• Adept at explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences