Grindr

Staff Software Engineer, Android

Grindr

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Palo AltoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $254,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Working collaboratively with a brilliant cross-functional, cross-timezone team to make Grindr the best app it can be for its users.
  • Able to work across multiple work streams and use ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking.
  • Create innovation by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow.
  • Elevate your team's technical proficiency; help your team adopt new tools and ways of working.
  • Building Android applications, including proficiency with:
  • Programming in Kotlin.
  • Managing large codebases and maintaining clean, structured code that is easier to understand, modify, and debug.
  • Performance optimization for large, complex applications to provide a smooth user experience.
  • Designing applications with scalability in mind.
  • Software engineering collaboration best practices and design patterns including MVVM, Coordinator, one-way data flow, and modular architecture.

Requirements

  • You love taking ownership. You think beyond your team and know how to implement change across your organization.
  • You have at least 6 years of experience building complex Android applications.
  • You have a well-built technical experience that inspires individual contributors' creativity and innovation.
  • You have experience with product leadership and technical decision-making and know how to leverage that for good judgments and tradeoffs between product and code.
  • You have been working closely with various levels of business stakeholders, from the c-suite, VP level, and down.
  • You can jump into the code on a deep level but can also contribute to long-term initiatives by mentoring your team.
  • Strong practical knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns such as MVVM, Coordinator, one-way data flow, modular architecture, performance optimization & metrics.
  • Experience with Architecture at scale and have worked with different tech stacks outside of mobile.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
KotlinAndroid developmentperformance optimizationMVVMCoordinator patternone-way data flowmodular architecturesoftware engineering best practicesscalabilitycodebase management
Soft Skills
ownershipcollaborationcreativityinnovationmentoringdecision-makingcommunicationadaptabilityleadershipproblem-solving