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