The Core Platform Team within E&E (Evergreen & Emerging Brands) builds and maintains the foundational services, tools, and systems that power multiple across some of the most iconic and innovative brands in the dating industry-including Match, Meetic, BLK, OkCupid, Upward, Yuzu, and more. We design scalable, reliable, and secure backend platforms that enable product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences efficiently and consistently.
Requirements
- Strong experience in .NET Core / .NET 6+
- Deep understanding of REST API design, microservices, and distributed systems
- Experience with database design and optimization (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar)
- Skills translating product and business requirements into scalable technical designs
- The capability to break down complex problems into actionable, deliverable components
- Experience estimating effort and managing technical trade-offs in large systems
- Comfortability working across multiple repositories and large-scale codebases
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core backend services that support multiple Match Group brands.
- Collaborate closely with brand engineering teams to understand platform needs and deliver shared solutions.
- Lead technical design and implementation for major projects within the Core Platform domain.
- Contribute to platform scalability and reliability, ensuring high performance and availability.
- Mentor and support engineers on the team through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing.
- Champion best practices in code quality, observability, and test-driven development (TDD).
- Experience integrating unit, integration, and end-to-end testing into CI/CD pipelines
Other
- We work together IRL in our Dallas office three days a week.
- Proven ability to partner with Product Managers, Architects, and cross-functional peers
- Strong written communication for technical documentation and design proposals
- Experience presenting designs and gathering feedback
- Ability to take ownership of validating work, not relying solely on QA teams
