raya - Senior Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems

• 3+ years managing engineers, with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, career development, and delivery. • Experience leading or building production recommender systems at scale. • Hands-on depth in high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems that serve millions of users. • Expertise in Go, Java/JVM, or a similar backend language; Postgres, and AWS/GCP, and Kubernetes. • ## What Sets You Apart • Experience with social networks or two-sided marketplaces in a subscription setting: you understand reciprocal interest, exposure, liquidity, and how great recommendations create long-term retentive value. • Familiarity with how machine learning and AI fit into modern recommender systems. • Experience with retrieval infrastructure such as Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, vector search, or feature stores.