Lead Engineering

As a Lead Engineering for Video & Social Dating, you are responsible for leading a cross-functional team spanning i OS, Android, Backend, and QA.

You combine strong technical expertise with people leadership, ensuring your team delivers high-quality features while continuously evolving technically and operationally.

You collaborate closely with other Leads, Product, and Agile to drive product success and platform maturity.

This role balances hands‑on engineering with leadership, giving you a direct impact on what we build, how we build it, and how the team grows.

• Minimum Qualifications
• At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally in backend or platform engineering, with a strong track record of building and operating production‑grade services.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Node. js and the design, development, and operation of scalable microservices architectures.
• Practical experience with AWS‑based environments and event‑driven systems using messaging and streaming technologies such as Rabbit MQ / RMQ and Kafka.
• Strong technical judgment and experience driving complex features or systems from idea to production.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• A coaching mindset and a genuine interest in helping others grow.
• A strong sense of ownership, prioritization, and accountability.
• AI focused vision and hands on experience using AI tools such as Claude to create meaningful value in engineering workflows, technical decision‑making, or product development.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience leading cross‑functional initiatives or coordinating work across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and helping teams grow in maturity, quality, and collaboration.
• Experience guiding architectural decisions and balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term sustainability.
• Experience with additional cloud platforms, especially GCP.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and reliability tooling, ideally Dash0.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Type Script in backend, frontend, or full‑stack environments.
• What you can expect
• Lead and develop one or more cross‑functional engineering teams spanning i OS, Android, Backend, and QA, with full people responsibility, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Drive technical leadership across the team by setting architectural direction, guiding key decisions, and ensuring solutions are scalable and maintainable.
• Shape and evolve scalable microservices‑based systems using modern cloud, messaging, observability, and AI‑enabled engineering practices.
• Actively contribute to the codebase by developing key features and setting engineering standards through hands‑on involvement.
• Guide technical decisions to ensure scalable, maintainable, and high‑performing solutions.
• Ensure code quality through reviews, mentoring, and hands‑on best practices.
• Align team delivery with product goals, ensuring timely and predictable outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product Management and other Engineering Leads to align priorities and architecture, drive outcomes, and ensure business impact.
• Foster an inclusive, high‑trust team culture with a strong focus on collaboration and accountability.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $170,00 – $190,000.

Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and location, consistent with applicable law.

In addition to base salary, this role includes an annual bonus.

The Parship Meet Group values and embraces diversity and inclusion.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

The Meet Group is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants if needed during the interview process.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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