Senior Data Engineer

Hinge

Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted

In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Hinge, you will create essential data processes and contribute to components of a modern data pipeline that will be the foundation of Hinge’s decision-making ability. The systems you help create, the problems you help solve, and the support of our analytical minds, will be pivotal to the success of Hinge. Your work will enable the organization to make data-driven decisions and drive improvements, which will affect the love lives of millions of people.

As a Senior Data Engineer on the team, you will be improving core functionality and implementing critical pipelines that will not only aid the Data Engineering team but also the rest of the organization. You will be working on an actual big data architecture while concentrating on real-world problems.

Responsibilities:

• Work with our data teams to ensure data is flowing accurately through data creation to our presentation layers.
• Improve our Data Engineering stack through containerization, data modeling, developing our ETL pipelines, and more.
• Use your expertise in data modeling to design, build, and maintain our analytics data warehouse, which provides clean, accurate, and robust data sets that can be leveraged for reporting, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
• Work with stakeholders and translate their needs and expectations into action items and deliverables.
• Continue to learn more about the Data Engineering discipline, utilize that knowledge in your deliverables, and identify opportunities to enhance our pipelines.
• Participate in our on-call rotation to ensure system reliability, promptly addressing issues to ensure smooth operations.

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional/industry experience
• Proficient in Python, SQL, DevOps, and databases.
• 5+ years of professional/industry experience.
• Experience delivering data products from conception to delivery and with the infrastructure that supports their underlying processes.
• Experience modeling data sets for different types of sources and business processes.
• Passionate about designing elegant data infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines.
• Familiarity with our stack: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Looker, AWS technologies (S3, Redshift), GCP technologies (Dataflow, BigQuery). and CI/CD technologies (CircleCI), Spark, Databricks

Salary Range

$186,000.00 - $223,000.00 per year salary

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

Diversity inspires innovation.

Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.

Do your best work, live your best life

401(k) Matching

We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.

Professional Growth

Get a $3,000 annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6,000 courses, starting your first day.

Parental Leave & Planning

When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents).

Fertility Support

You and your spouse/domestic partner will get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, which offers convenient access to a range of fertility care options. We offer up to $15,000 to assist with covering fertility expenses, including basic treatments and fertility preservation.

Date Stipend

Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates – romantic or otherwise. HingeX is also free for employees and their loved ones.

ERGs

We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents, and Remote—that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.

Hiring Process

A call to get to know each other.

As a first step, we want to have a quick chat to learn more about you, your career goals, and why you’re interested in Hinge and the role you applied for. Bring your questions—this should be a good fit for both of us!

The skills interview.

You’ll meet with members of the team you’d be working with at Hinge to discuss your experience in the key skills needed for the role. (We’ll make sure we’re on the same page about what they are before the interview.) It’s also a good time to get answers to all your nitty-gritty questions about the day-to-day work on this team.

The narrative interview.

Let’s talk past, present, and future. Come prepared with examples from previous roles that display a growth mindset. This isn’t a memorization exercise, so feel free to bring notes that help highlight prior projects.

The culture interview.

The culture interview is near and dear to our hearts, because it’s “how we work.” It’s crucial that you not only embody our values, but that you thrive at Hinge.

Making an offer.

Phew, we made it! We try to make the offer part of the process a positive one, so we’ll do our best to get it to you quickly. And we’ll be available to chat through it and answer questions. If we’re not making you an offer, we’ll let you know that too.

What you’ll love about our New York office.

We believe in the power of in-person connection. For full-time and hybrid employees, Hinge HQ is a place to collaborate and get to know each other.

• Catered Lunches
• Commuter Benefits
• All-Gender Restrooms
• Nursing & Wellness Rooms

Do you think we’d click?

If you’re passionate about inspiring intimate connections, join us.

What requirements are there for in-office and hybrid roles?

Hybrid roles at Hinge are based in NYC and require three days per week in our beautiful Meatpacking District office. We believe there’s real value in in-person collaboration and have designed our hybrid model to balance focused work with meaningful time together.

Our office is a space people genuinely enjoy spending time in — beautiful working areas, lots of plants, plenty of food and snacks, and yes, dog friendly.

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