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Raya

Senior Engineering Manager, Recommender Systems

Raya

Technology, Information and Internet · 51-200 employees

2 d ago
Remote engineering-manager Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time
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About the role

Lead and coach a high-performing backend team specializing in recommender systems while ensuring system reliability and low latency. Partner with the Machine Learning and Data Science teams to define technical strategy, roadmaps, and experimentation processes.

What they look for

Recommender systems Backend engineering Machine learning Distributed systems Go Java JVM Postgres AWS GCP Kubernetes Elasticsearch OpenSearch Vector search Feature stores Performance management

Requirements

Requires 3+ years of engineering management experience and deep expertise in building production-scale recommender systems. Candidates must have hands-on experience with high-throughput distributed systems and proficiency in backend languages like Go or Java.

Benefits

Medical coverage Dental coverage Food delivery budget Equity based employment Unlimited vacation Paid parental leave Travel stipend

Full description

As Engineering Manager for Recommender Systems, you'll lead the team that builds the backend retrieval and ranking infrastructure behind recommendations at Raya. You'll partner closely with the head of ML to drive our tech strategy and ensure our members get the best experience possible on the core surface of our product.

We are looking for someone who is technically strong, has deep experience with production recommender systems, and has intuitive product-focused user empathy.

We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity.

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Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and retain a high-performing backend team that specializes in recommender systems.

• Own reliable, low-latency production systems, observability, and incident response for recommendations. Catch regressions in latency, quality, or fairness before users notice.

• Create and execute a technical strategy that is grounded in deep product intuition and empathy for the end-user experience.

• Partner with the Machine Learning team to define roadmaps. Balance user-facing improvements with investments in infrastructure, reliability, and experimentation.

• Work with Data Science to co-own experimentation processes, tools, and best practices.

Qualifications

• 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.

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