Senior Engineering Manager, User Safety (Cross-Platform)

Senior Engineering Manager, User Safety (Cross-Platform)

NYC-hybrid

Our Client is looking for an Engineering Manager to join their team. You will manage and mentor a small team of engineers, own software deliverables for a critical piece of their work to protect user safety, design and build systems at scale, and create a productive work environment for your team.

What does this mean more concretely? You'll work with a growing team of engineers who build both the client and back end of features for the their app designed to protect user safety and privacy, and empower their teammates to fix issues when things don't go as planned. You and your team will work with product managers, data scientists, and designers to plan and deliver systems with a focus on reducing harassment, violence, bias, and scams, and ensuring that users who are looking for love and commitment are able to do so safely. In the process of this, you'll guide and mentor engineers with a wide variety of backgrounds as they develop both technical and leadership skills.

You'll also have the opportunity to participate in a company that values honest feedback and empathy, and that seeks to support and develop team members of all backgrounds and abilities

Responsibilities

5 + years of hands-on technical leadership for your team. You can expect to spend time writing code, architecting applications, and guiding your team as they do so as well.
Hire, manage, coach, unblock, and facilitate the growth of a team of engineers who each may specialize in one platform -- backend, Android, or iOS.
Partner with business and engineering leaders to prioritize feature development and engineering investment.
Improve processes and technical abstractions to increase team productivity.
Stay current on engineering best practices to guide team strategy.
Work in a modern tech stack: Swift, Kotlin, Go, Kafka, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS (previous experience with any of these technologies is helpful but not required).

What They Are Looking For

You have experience in software development including shepherding design and delivery of multiple large-scale distributed applications, preferably with both back end services and apps listed in app stores.
You have experience managing engineers, or experience developing teams of engineers and a strong desire to build managerial skills.
You can facilitate technical decision-making even in domains where you are not the expert.
You are passionate about building a team culture that focuses on fun, performance, scalability, and security
You are constantly learning and re-evaluating previous assumptions.
You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity.

The Company:

Our Client has the dating app designed to be deleted. In todays digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that theyre not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Our Client is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. There are no rules, timers, or games. Instead, youll have unique conversations over the text, photos, and audio youve shared on your profile. And its resonating with daters. They were the fastest-growing dating app in the US, UK, Canada and Australia in 2019 and 2020.

Their Culture:

Authenticity: Share your genuine thoughts and opinions directly.

Courage: Invite and deeply consider challenges and criticism.

Empathy: Be empathetic, communitarian and trustworthy.

They are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at their company. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.