Head of Backend Engineering

muzmatch
London
4 months ago
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All potential applicants are encouraged to scroll through and read the complete job description before applying.£100,000 - £130,000 + equityWe’re looking for an experienced leader to join our engineering leadership team and take charge of all aspects of backend engineering. You’ll be leading a 20+ team of backend and devops engineers to drive best practices and work with our squads on delivering key company initiatives.As the Head of Backend Engineering you will be responsible for the whole backend stack here at Muzz both the day to day smooth running and architecting/planning changes for new features.You will join a 3 person engineering leadership team including the CTO and Head of Mobile Engineering to tackle cross company initiatives vital to the company’s success.What you'll accomplish

Lead a 20+ team of backend + devops engineersDrive best practices in our backend stack through the leadsWork with our Platform Core squad on improving Developer experience to enable us to release features faster, reduce technical debt and increase developer satisfactionWork as part of a 3 person engineering leadership team to uncover issues across engineering, agree best practices and solve cross company engineering challenges.Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence within their areaOwn cross-company initiatives and work with squads to prioritise and deliverBe responsible for the uptime and performant running of our entire platformMonitor our stack, profile code and optimise code where necessary to reduce resource requirements and cost to runDrive efficiency gains reducing the company cloud billHelp backend engineers across the company to architect changes to keep things lean and simpleStay up to date with new opportunities in the AWS spaceWork with our Data Engineering team to ensure the smooth flow of production data to our data warehouse setupEnsure our Incident management process is working well and that we’re learning and growing with every production incidentStay hands on writing and reviewing code where needed to help the team outMust haves

8+ years in Backend engineering5+ years leading engineering teamsExtensive mentoring experienceSolid architecture experienceExperience of focusing on business outcome first to quickly make difficult decisionsStartup experienceStrong Go experience with focus on event driven services and gRPCStrong scripting skills (shell, or Python)Strong cloud engineering experienceExpertise with building on the cloud AWS services – we use over 40 AWS services

Knowledge across a wide range of compute options such as ECS, EKS and LambdaIAM – Experience handling IAM resource permissionsNetworking – fundamental understanding of VPC, subnet routing and gatewaysStorage – strong understanding of S3, EBS and ParquetDatabases – RDS, DynamoDBExperience doing cost estimation in Cost Explorer and planning efficiency changes

Terraform and containerisation experienceUnderstanding of a broad range of protocols like HTTP, TCP, gRPC, DNS etcNice to haves

GCP experienceAdvanced EC2 knowledge like spot fleetsExperience with Amazon Neptune and AthenaExperience with Kinesis or KafkaProduction Kubernetes experienceB2C consumer app experienceExperience with payment providers like Stripe, Google Play, Apple App StorePrevious experience in dating and/or social media spaceWorked in leadership in a fast scaling businessWhy join Muzz?

We’re a profitable Consumer Tech startup, backed by Y Combinator (S17) and based in London . Join our fast growing team and work on an amazing product that’s changing the world.A great product

We’re the leading app in this space with over 12 million members worldwide and counting!Level up quickly

Work with talented, generous people on the kinds of challenges you’ll be proud to share.A diverse team

We have people from all walks of life all adding their unique perspective. Muslims and non-Muslims, cat lovers and dog lovers. Everyone is welcome!Meaningful equity

We’re all working together to succeed and everyone on the team gets a slice of the pie.A hackathon every quarter

We value curiosity and building something wacky (but useful!). Every quarter we organise into random teams and together we build, code, and prototype. Prizes and dinner complete the day!International travel

We fly the whole team to somewhere amazing twice a year to connect and have fun.Regular socials

Mini golf, hikes, super competitive Catan nights - we’ve done it all. Maybe you’ll be at the next social?Generous Holiday / PTO

All full-time members get at least 33 days of holiday, regardless of where they live.Our hiring process

We pride ourselves on making fast hiring decisions.Step 1. Submit your CV. Step 2. An initial video call. Step 3. Complete a technical exercise. Step 4. Interview (in person or remote) Step 5. Receive an offer!#J-18808-Ljbffr

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