Head of Backend Engineering
London, UK (Hybrid - 2 days)
£100,000 - £130,000 + equity
We’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 engineers
- Drive best practices in our backend stack through the leads
- Work with our Platform Core squad on improving Developer experience to enable us to release features faster, reduce technical debt and increase developer satisfaction
- Work 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 area
- Own cross-company initiatives and work with squads to prioritise and deliver
- Be responsible for the uptime and performant running of our entire platform
- Monitor our stack, profile code and optimise code where necessary to reduce resource requirements and cost to run
- Drive efficiency gains reducing the company cloud bill
- Help backend engineers across the company to architect changes to keep things lean and simple
- Stay up to date with new opportunities in the AWS space
- Work with our Data Engineering team to ensure the smooth flow of production data to our data warehouse setup
- Ensure our Incident management process is working well and that we’re learning and growing with every production incident
- Stay hands on writing and reviewing code where needed to help the team out
Must haves
- 8+ years in Backend engineering
- 5+ years leading engineering teams
- Extensive mentoring experience
- Solid architecture experience
- Experience of focusing on business outcome first to quickly make difficult decisions
- Startup experience
- Strong Go experience with focus on event driven services and gRPC
- Strong scripting skills (shell, or Python)
- Strong cloud engineering experience
- Expertise 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 Lambda
- IAM – Experience handling IAM resource permissions
- Networking – fundamental understanding of VPC, subnet routing and gateways
- Storage – strong understanding of S3, EBS and Parquet
- Databases – RDS, DynamoDB
- Experience doing cost estimation in Cost Explorer and planning efficiency changes
- Terraform and containerisation experience
- Understanding of a broad range of protocols like HTTP, TCP, gRPC, DNS etc
Nice to haves
- GCP experience
- Advanced EC2 knowledge like spot fleets
- Experience with Amazon Neptune and Athena
- Experience with Kinesis or Kafka
- Production Kubernetes experience
- B2C consumer app experience
- Experience with payment providers like Stripe, Google Play, Apple App Store
- Previous experience in dating and/or social media space
- Worked in leadership in a fast scaling business
Pourquoi rejoindre Muzz ?
Nous sommes une startup dans le domaine de la technologie grand public, soutenue par Y Combinator (S17) et basée à Londres. Rejoignez notre équipe en pleine croissance et travaillez sur un produit extraordinaire qui est en train de changer le monde.
Un produit exceptionnel
Nous sommes l'application de premier plan dans ce domaine avec plus de 12 millions de membres dans le monde, et ce nombre ne cesse de croître !
Progression rapide
Travaillez avec des personnes talentueuses et généreuses sur des défis dont vous serez fiers de parler.
Une équipe diversifiée
Nous accueillons des personnes de tous horizons, apportant chacune leur perspective unique. Musulmans et non-musulmans, amoureux des chats et amoureux des chiens. Tout le monde est le bienvenu !
Participation significative
Nous travaillons tous ensemble pour réussir, et chaque membre de l'équipe reçoit sa part du gâteau.
Un hackathon chaque trimestre
Nous valorisons la curiosité et la création de quelque chose de farfelu (mais utile !). Chaque trimestre, nous formons des équipes au hasard et ensemble, nous construisons, codons et prototypons. Des prix et un dîner complètent la journée !
Voyages internationaux
Nous faisons voyager toute l'équipe vers des destinations incroyables deux fois par an pour créer des liens et s'amuser.
Événements réguliers
Mini-golf, randonnées, parties de cartes ultra-compétitives, nous avons tout fait. Peut-être serez-vous au prochain événement ?
Congés généreux / Jours de congé payés
Tous les membres à temps plein bénéficient d'au moins 33 jours de congé, quel que soit leur lieu de résidence.
Notre processus de recrutement
Nous sommes fiers de prendre des décisions de recrutement rapides.
Étape 1.
Soumettez votre CV.
Étape 2.
Un premier appel vidéo.
Étape 3.
Réalisez un exercice technique.
Étape 4.
Entretien (en personne ou à distance).
Étape 5.
Recevez une offre !
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