описание
PersonalInvest operates a dating app focused on helping people connect on their own terms. It has over 17 million users worldwide and ranked among the top 10 most-downloaded dating apps in the U.S. last year.
задачи
- Own and drive the company’s backend technical vision, architecture, and long-term scalability plans
- Manage four senior backend engineers and oversee one to two DevOps engineers, including 1:1s, hiring, firing, performance, and growth
- Take ownership of the full technical team over time, growing to approximately 15 members
- Translate product goals into technical roadmaps, sprint plans, and engineering priorities
- Make architectural decisions on performance, infrastructure, reliability, and scaling for millions of users
- Establish and improve engineering processes, code quality standards, and deployment pipelines
- Address performance bottlenecks, data flow, caching strategies, and infrastructure decisions
- Drive the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the team, including code generation, review, testing, and tooling
- Review code and contribute hands-on
- Run and support A/B testing and experimentation infrastructure for approximately five experiments per week
- Ensure API speed, uptime, data accuracy, and architectural consistency
- Design backend systems for scale, resilience, and fast iteration
- Implement security and privacy best practices
требования
- At least 8 years of backend development experience in production environments
- Experience leading engineering teams with ownership of hiring, firing, performance reviews, and team structure
- Experience at Director of Engineering, Head of Engineering, or CTO level, or equivalent ownership of people and systems
- Recent experience building or running engineering at a startup with fewer than 50 people
- Experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app
- Still writes code and wants to; not looking to become a full-time manager
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain trade-offs, align stakeholders, and lead engineering discussions across a distributed EU and Asia team
- Experience scaling backend systems to high traffic, with 10,000+ DAUs and ideally much higher
- Experience driving technical planning, sprints, and feature delivery
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, databases, caching, and performance optimization
- Decisive and able to make decisions quickly
- Not a fit for enterprise or big-company veterans who managed 50+ people and have not touched code in years, process-heavy operators who want to install Jira workflows before shipping, or people who need to be told what to build
- Communicates clearly and confidently in English
- Has a “let’s get it DONE” mindset, is obsessively detail-oriented, and enjoys sharing ideas and building things together
- Будет плюсом: Ruby on Rails experience, experience in B2C startups (mobile, social, marketplace, etc.), a strong product mindset, Terraform / IaC familiarity, Kubernetes in production
условия
- B2B cooperation
- Just refi bonus: $1,000
- Full refi bonus: $3,000
- 28 Days of paid vacation
- Compensation for training and gear
- Annual team workation trip to Thailand or Indonesia
