Engineering
Senior Director of Engineering, Trust & Safety
New York, New York
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hybrid
Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted
In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role
Trust & Safety is foundational to Hinge’s mission of helping people find meaningful connections. We are looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead the organization responsible for protecting our community and enabling safe, authentic experiences. You will oversee engineers (including managers) across multiple product teams, partnering closely with Product, AI/ML, and Data to set strategy and ensure organizational health.
This role requires a senior organizational leader who can operate across a broad surface area - structuring teams, scaling managers, and driving execution across complex, user-facing systems. While Trust & Safety is the domain, success in this role is defined by improving user experience and trust, not just mitigating risk. A key component of this role is outward-facing leadership: building partnerships across Match Group and the broader industry to anticipate trends and invest in future-proof capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Organizational Health: Lead the Trust & Safety engineering org, defining multi-quarter roadmaps in partnership with cross-functional leadership. Hire and coach engineering managers, building a strong leadership bench and fostering a culture of high standards, accountability, and ownership.
- Execution Excellence: Drive predictable delivery across multiple teams, balancing urgent risk response with long-term product and platform investments. Establish scalable operating rhythms for planning, technical reviews, and incident learnings.
- Technical Leadership: Provide oversight for T&S platforms (detection, enforcement, appeals, identity) and ensure strong system design across backend, platform, and ML-adjacent systems.
- Product Partnership: Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and AI/ML to define strategy and deliver user-centric solutions that improve trust and overall user experience.
- Partnerships: Build relationships with Match Group leaders and cross-functional partners (Legal, Policy) to align on priorities and navigate complex tradeoffs.
- AI Change Management: In close partnership with Product and AI leaders, modernize enforcement and user experiences with AI-enabled workflows that are measurable, accountable, and trusted by users.
What We're Looking For
- Experience: 10+ years in software engineering (distributed systems at scale) and 4+ years managing managers, with a track record of leading and scaling teams of 20+ engineers.
- Technical Judgment: Strong grasp of architecture, reliability, data/ML-adjacent systems, and mobile + backend collaboration.
- Product & User Mindset: Demonstrated focus on building user-centric products that improve trust and experience - not just protecting the business or enforcing policy.
- Domain Expertise: Experience in Trust & Safety, abuse prevention, fraud, moderation workflows, identity, user reporting, integrity, or regulated/high-risk environments is strongly preferred.
- Execution & Ownership: Strong bias toward action, with a track record of driving complex, cross-team initiatives in fast-moving environments.
- Operational Agility: Comfort operating in high-urgency environments, managing incident response without sacrificing long-term quality.
- Strategic Thinking: Relentless focus on driving user value whilst navigating regulatory requirements
- Experience partnering with AI/ML teams on detection, classification, or GenAI-related risk mitigation.
- Background in regulated or safety-sensitive domains (marketplaces, fintech, social platforms).
- Familiarity with T&S operations workflows, case management, and policy-to-product translation.
Salary Range
$290,000.00 - $348,000.00 per year salary
Diversity inspires innovation.
Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
Diversity inspires innovation.
Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
The Hinge value I resonate most with is...
Empathy. When your personal values and your company's values align-- you know it's the right place to work.
Jared Moskowitz
iOS Engineer
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Apply for this roleWhat does Hinge’s relationship with Match Group mean?
What does Hinge’s relationship with Match Group mean?
In early 2019, Hinge became part of Match Group. Since then, Hinge’s executive team has continued to set our mission, vision, and the working norms that guide how we show up every day. While some corporate functions are supported at the Match Group level, working at Hinge is unique experience — shaped by our people, our values, and our product.
TL;DR: We get the best of both worlds! Hinge still operates like a small, mission-driven company, and we have the stability and resources of a company that’s stood the test of time.
I’ve never used Hinge before. Am I still a fit for this role?
I’ve never used Hinge before. Am I still a fit for this role?
Of course! Having used Hinge or any other dating app is definitely not a requirement. That being said, we are looking for team members who genuinely believe our product can and will help people all over the world connect. Our team is passionate about the dating industry and we hope you’ll be passionate about it too!
What requirements are there for in-office and hybrid roles?
What requirements are there for in-office and hybrid roles?
Hybrid roles at Hinge are based in NYC and require three days per week in our beautiful Meatpacking District office. We believe there’s real value in in-person collaboration and have designed our hybrid model to balance focused work with meaningful time together.
Our office is a space people genuinely enjoy spending time in — beautiful working areas, lots of plants, plenty of food and snacks, and yes, dog friendly.
What can I expect from Hinge’s culture?
What can I expect from Hinge’s culture?
Relationships are at the core of everything we do.
And not just the romantic kind. We can’t accomplish really hard things alone—so we make great relationships the foundation of our teamwork.
We believe our three core values. Authenticity, Courage, and Empathy are what it takes to build those great relationships.
How many people currently work at Hinge?
How many people currently work at Hinge?
We are growing each week, but last time we checked, more than 320 talented and beautiful souls are a part of the Hinge team across all of our departments.
How does compensation work?
How does compensation work?
Paying our people fairly and equitably is really important to us! We offer packages with three types of compensation depending on role type and level. Most compensation packages at Hinge consist of base salary, annual bonus target percentage and equity in the form of MTCH stock.
Diversity inspires innovation.
Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.