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Senior Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Posted on Raya's careers page, not through a job board

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Raya

51 - 200 employees

🌍 Social Impact

👥 B2C

📱 Media

Social Impact • B2C • Media

Raya is a private, membership-based community that connects celebrities, influencers, and other professionals through a social networking app. Known for its exclusivity and discretion, Raya offers a platform for networking and social interaction among its elite members. It is often referred to as a 'Tinder for the famous,' offering both dating and professional connection opportunities.

📋 Description

• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing backend team specializing in recommender systems • Own reliable, low-latency production systems, observability, and incident response for recommendations • Catch regressions in latency, quality, or fairness before users notice • Create and execute a technical strategy grounded in product intuition and empathy for the end-user experience • Partner with the Machine Learning team to define roadmaps • Balance user-facing improvements with investments in infrastructure, reliability, and experimentation • Work with Data Science to co-own experimentation processes, tools, and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years managing engineers, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, career development, and delivery • Experience leading or building production recommender systems at scale • Hands-on depth in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that serve millions of users • Expertise in Go, Java/JVM, or a similar backend language; Postgres, AWS/GCP, and Kubernetes • Experience with social networks or two-sided marketplaces in a subscription setting • Familiarity with how machine learning and AI fit into modern recommender systems • Experience with retrieval infrastructure such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, or feature stores

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage • $50 a day food delivery budget • Equity based employment • Great culture • Learning opportunities • Unlimited vacation • 12 weeks paid parental leave • $1,000 a year to travel somewhere in the world they’ve never been

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