Head of Backend Engineering
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
11-03-2025
Job Specifications
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
Technology We Love at Muzz
iOS - Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, Realm, RxSwift
Android - Kotlin
Backend - Go, Protocol buffers, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB
Why join Muzz?
We’re a profitable Consumer Tech startup, backed by Y Combinator (S17) and based in London. Join our fast growing team and work on an amazing product that’s changing the world.
A great product - We’re the leading app in this space with over 10 million members worldwide and counting!
Level up quickly - Work with talented, generous people on the kinds of challenges you’ll be proud to share.
A diverse team - We have people from all walks of life all adding their unique perspective. Muslims and non-Muslims, cat lovers and dog lovers. Everyone is welcome!
Meaningful equity - We’re all working together to succeed and everyone on the team gets a slice of the pie.
A hackathon every quarter - We value curiosity and building something wacky (but useful!). Every quarter we organise into random teams and together we build, code, and prototype. Prizes and dinner complete the day!
International travel - We fly the whole team to somewhere amazing twice a year to connect and have fun.
Regular socials - Mini golf, hikes, super competitive Catan nights - we’ve done it all. Maybe you’ll be at the next social?
Generous Holiday / PTO - All full-time members get at least 33 days of holiday, regardless of where they live.
Interview Process
Initial video call
Video interview with CTO + Head of Backend Engineering
Technical Exercise
In person interview with key staff and CEO
Receive an offer
About the Company
Muzz - the worlds biggest and best Muslim marriage app. Over 10 Million members worldwide, over 500,000 successes. Raised a total of $9M and backed by Silicon Valley based Y Combinator. Where Muslims meet. Know more
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