# Senior Backend Engineering Manager, Recommendations at Match Group

- Company: Match Group
- Company website: https://www.match.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York
- Work setup: Hybrid
- Pay: $219K to $263K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/matchgroup/553d4da2-ff94-4306-b985-2ea09bf48dca
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/match-group-senior-backend-engineering-manager-recommendations/

## About the role

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 6-8 engineers building recommendation services Partner with ML to productionize recommendation models and ensure low-latency, high-availability serving infrastructure

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role
- Strong backend systems expertise – you've built or operated large-scale distributed systems in production
- Experience with recommendation systems, search ranking, personalization, or adjacent ML-serving infrastructure
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages (ideally Go)
- Familiarity with data processing architectures, feature stores, and model-serving technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, etc)
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams

Tags: Engineering