Location: New York, New York
Employment Type: Regular
Team: Engineering
OkCupid is looking to hire a Software Engineer for the Backend Team!
**We're seeking Engineers **
who are passionate about technology
who are excited to learn new things
that are independent
that work well with others
who will join our small team in NYC!
What is it like being a Software Engineer at OkCupid?
The OkCupid backend engineering team of about a dozen engineers builds the infrastructure that powers matching algorithms, messaging, and more for millions of users every day. Because the team is so small relative to our user base, each engineer here has full ownership of what they're working on and the opportunity to have a considerable amount of direct consumer impact. We also have a lot of input into both technical and product design. We are involved in all parts of the process, from ideation to deployment, so everything we build is something we also had a hand in designing.
Since our team size is lean, each of us has the opportunity to be exposed to many different parts of our stack and learn a ton. To give one concrete example, one backend engineer has in the past year alone: built the foundation of our anti-spam infrastructure, built out the backend support for a completely new messaging paradigm, and made the foundation of our machine learning infrastructure.
We work closely with the other engineering and product teams across the company to figure out the best ways to help people find meaningful relationships and turn those ideas into live product features. These changes include adding brand-new features and experiences to the site. We tweak our matching algorithm to ensure that users see the best possible matches or improve our infrastructure to ensure that users can always find matches and continue moving quickly and improving their experience.
Some things you'll do:
Analyze site activity and user behavior to figure out what makes people click
Work with product and engineering teams to figure out the best ways to help our users find love.
Design, implement and deploy features and improvements based on these findings.
Some examples of projects that backend engineers are currently or were recently working on:
Discovery: building a new site experience to help users find other users based on shared interests, question answers, etc.
Matching algorithm: optimizing the algorithms that decide whom users see in different places across the site
ML infrastructure: building out infrastructure to allow our engineers and data scientists to quickly and easily deploy newly trained machine learning models into production
Core infrastructure: designing the future foundation of OkCupid's backend infrastructure, from deployments to testing environments to monitoring and alerting
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What’s in it for you?
Competitive salary and full benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and many others.
100% employer match on 401k contributions
Allowance for home office set-up
100% paid Parental leave for up to 20 weeks
Annual training budget for each employee
Complimentary catered lunch and an endless supply of snacks & drinks
Company funded happy hours and other fun events
Discounted fitness membership with ClassPass
A team full of incredibly curious and friendly people
OkCupid is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.