Grindr

Staff Software Engineer, Android

Grindr

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $152,000 - $203,000 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 have at least 6 years of experience building complex Android applications
  • You love taking ownership. You think beyond your team and know how to implement change across your organization
  • 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
Android developmentKotlinperformance optimizationMVVMCoordinator patternone-way data flowmodular architecturesoftware engineering best practicescodebase managementscalability design
Soft Skills
collaborationownershipcreativityinnovationmentoringcommunicationleadershipdecision-makingproblem-solvingadaptability