Senior Engineering Manager
Grindr
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $186,000 - $248,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and Inspire: Hire, build and retain a high-performing, full-stack engineering team, cultivating a strong culture of excellence.
- Drive Execution at Scale: Deliver complex, cross-functional programs that directly support the company’s strategic and financial goals.
- Influence at the Top: Work at the intersection of business, product and engineering and represent engineering with senior leadership to shape high-impact initiatives.
- Champion Technical Evolution: Advance engineering best practices while guiding the team’s transformation into an AI-native organization.
- Foster a Thriving Team Culture: Build an inclusive, psychologically safe environment that values excellence, experimentation, humility and accountability.
- Balance Present and Future: Navigate trade-offs between short-term priorities and long-term innovation, adapting your leadership to changing needs.
Requirements
- Experienced People Leader: Led multiple teams and managers, coached senior engineers, and built diverse, high-performing organizations.
- Hands-On Management: Comfortable leading ICs directly, driving trust, accountability, and high-quality technical outcomes.
- Technically Fluent: Deep understanding of engineering systems; a credible partner to your team without needing to be hands-on daily.
- Cross-Functional Operator: Skilled at collaborating with Product, Design, Business, and external engineering teams to align on shared goals.
- Strategic and Decisive: Craft clear strategies, manage complexity, and deliver results in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
- Customer-Centric Builder: Scaled consumer-facing products — ideally mobile — in high-growth tech environments.
Benefits
- Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
- Family Formation Up to $200,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
- Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
- Gender-Affirming Care: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Time Off & Rest: Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
- Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack engineeringengineering best practicesAI-native organizationconsumer-facing productsmobile development
Soft Skills
leadershipteam buildingcoachingcollaborationstrategic thinkingdecisivenesscustomer-centricitytrust buildingaccountabilitypsychological safety