Staff Software Engineer, Grindr

• 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

Desirable

• Come play a key role in building the next generation of the Grindr app
• Working within our Android team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest technologies, collaborate with a kind and capable team, and contribute to a one-of-a-kind app at a unique scale
• 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