Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - Recommendations Product Team

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What You'll Do:

• Design, develop and operate scalable and resilient distributed services that run on Kubernetes or ECS.
• Guide and maintain the architecture of recommendation team, which is currently supporting the core Tinder user’s swiping experience.
• Collaborate with various functional teams across Tinder to build and rollout exciting new features.
• Influence the team roadmap and product development.
• Recruit, encourage, and develop other team members.

We're looking for:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field with 5+ years of industry work experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and coding.
• Strong knowledge on backend architecture, knows when and where to making tradeoffs.
• Experience in handling ambiguous business requirements with excellent prioritization, time management abilities, and a focus on execution.
• Passion to tackle exciting engineering problems and make continuous improvements.
• Good interpersonal skills and effective communication skills, open minded, with ability to tackle different opinions and achieve consensus.
• Excellent knowledge and experience with a backend language like Java, Node.js, Go, etc.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with cloud computing systems such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience in design and development using NoSQL, such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Experience with Redis, ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Spark.
• Experience with Agile development methodology and CI/CD.
• Experience with Microservices / Kubenetes. 
• Experience with JVM performance tuning, good understanding of its low level details.