Senior Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems

13 hours, 23 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Raya

Raya

Raya is a global community platform fostering human connections through technology, offering a trusted space to find partners, friends, and collaborations worldwide.

Internet Software & Services
51-200
Founded 2015

Description

  • Build, coach, and retain a high-performing backend engineering team specializing in recommender systems.
  • Lead hiring, performance management, career development, and delivery for the engineering team.
  • Own the reliability, low-latency performance, observability, and incident response of production recommendation systems.
  • Identify and address latency, recommendation-quality, and fairness regressions before they affect members.
  • Create and execute a technical strategy informed by product priorities and member experience.
  • Partner with Machine Learning to define roadmaps and balance user-facing improvements with infrastructure, reliability, and experimentation investments.
  • Collaborate with Data Science to co-own experimentation processes, tools, and best practices.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering management experience with responsibility for hiring, performance management, career development, and delivery.
  • Experience leading or building production recommender systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of users.
  • Expertise in Go, Java/JVM, or a similar backend language.
  • Experience with Postgres, AWS or GCP, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with social networks or subscription-based two-sided marketplaces, including reciprocal interest, exposure, and liquidity considerations (preferred).
  • Familiarity with machine learning and AI applications in modern recommender systems (preferred).
  • Experience with retrieval infrastructure such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, or feature stores (preferred).

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage.
  • $50 daily food delivery budget.
  • Equity-based compensation.
  • Learning opportunities.
  • Unlimited vacation.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • $1,000 annual travel stipend to visit a new destination.

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