What’s so interesting about this role?

As a Director of API Engineering at Grindr, you’ll have the opportunity to manage a passionate team of engineers working on Grindr’s key systems. As an engineering leader, you pride yourself in your ability to lead with empathy for your team and turn that empathy into action for our enthusiastic, queer user-base. 

You will help the team build for the future by leading the team to design maintainable, reliable, scalable, and well-tested systems to serve a global audience of millions of concurrent users! As a highly innovative agent of change, you help to continually raise the bar and challenge the status quo to help shape and build the best organization in the industry. 

What’s the job? 

• Lead with empathy and provide thought leadership, expert technical guidance, and mentorship to a team of passionate engineers 
• Determine the needs of our diverse & complex user groups, requiring applied understanding and resolution of complex or unusual business problems
• Collaborating cross-functionally with the business and technical teams, bridging the gap between competing priorities and drivers. 
• Become an expert in the dating business, in social and communication technologies, while serving the LGBTQ+ community.

What we’ll love about you 

• You are an experienced people leader with a proven ability to manage engineers at varying stages of their careers. You have made coaching and mentorship a focus of your career and pride yourself in your ability to mentor engineers on best engineering practices as well as their own careers! 
• You have a strong ability to curate a productive remote working environment. You take team building seriously and understand its value.
• You have excellent communication, presentation, and documentation skills with the ability to define and communicate the ‘big picture’ to key stakeholders at various levels.
• You don’t shy away from conflict resolution and work to bridge the gap between competing priorities to maintain a culture of collaboration across the organization.   

We’ll really swoon if you have 

• Experience managing software engineering teams for 6+ years, would be a plus. 
• Experience managing scaling applications. Your ability to understand how to let the team grow the application, encourage/remove blockers when needed, and establish your role as an instrument to support your team. 
• You have the ability to identify risk areas and guide the team on a multidirectional scope 
• Experience fostering a diverse workplace and ensuring that your team’s voices are heard and valued. 
• Experience in e-commerce, dating, social apps, or retail would be a plus.   

What you'll love about us 

• Global impact. Grindr is the world-leading LGTBQ+ social networking service. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGTBQ+ people around the world.
• High Growth. Like the company itself, this role offers significant room for growth and development
• Remote First: We have offices in LA, NYC, SF, Chicago, Toronto, and Taipei, though the company is set up not just as remote-friendly, but remote-first. More than 30% of our employees work outside the cities where we have offices. Today, we are set up to hire easily in the US, Canada, and Taiwan. If you live outside one of these countries, just let us know so we can make sure we can support you.
• Comp: Industry competitive compensation, including equity for all employees
• Benefits: Unlimited vacation policy
• Family insurance: We provide great insurance coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Retirement Savings: Generous 401(k) plan
• Other Perks: home-office stipend, many company-sponsored events

About Grindr

Since launching in 2009, Grindr has grown into the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. We have millions of daily users who use our location-based technology in almost every country in every corner of the planet.

Today, Grindr proudly represents a modern LGBTQ+ lifestyle that expands into new platforms. From social issues to original content, we continue to blaze innovative paths with a meaningful impact for our community. At Grindr, we create a safe space where you can discover, navigate, and get zero feet away from the queer world around you.

As of June 2020, Grindr has new owners with a track record of multiple successful Bay Area start-ups. The new leadership is demonstrating a renewed commitment to creating an experience for users that is safe, fun, and productive, as well as a positive & uplifting company culture in which everyone can be their best selves. At the heart of Grindr’s mission in this new chapter is a shared set of core values including transparency, accountability, experimentation (failing fast), and strong allegiance to the LGBTQ+ community.

Grindr is an equal opportunity employer

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