Staff Software Engineer, Android

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2 Locations
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171K-229K Annually
Senior level
Mobile • Social Media • Social Impact • Software
The world's largest app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer for the Grindr app, you will lead Android app development, innovate architecture, and enhance team technical skills.
Summary Generated by Built In

This is a hybrid role based in our Palo Alto or Chicago offices and will require you to be in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What’s so interesting about this role?

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. The Grindr team continues to innovate as the largest social media app for the LGBTQ+ community.

What’s the job?

  • 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

What we'll love about you

  • 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

We'll really swoon if you have

  • Experience working with Kotlin Coroutines and Coroutine Flows

What you'll love about us

  • Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.

  • Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.

  • Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.

  • Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.

  • Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.

  • Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.

About Grindr

Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.

Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we’re setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.

Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.

Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer

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The Company
HQ: West Hollywood , CA
120 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

With more than 13.5 million monthly active users in virtually every country in the world, Grindr has grown to become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community since its launch in 2009. The company continues to expand its ecosystem to enable gay, bi, trans, and queer people to connect, express themselves, and discover the world around them.

Since 2015 Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.

Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York City. The Grindr app is available on the App Store and Google Play.

Why Work With Us

More than just a digital space to meet, Grindr also executes successful initiatives aimed at advancing LGBTQ+ issues including equality, social justice, health, and more. Behind the grid, Grindr is an inclusive and passionate community of thinkers, innovators, leaders, and most importantly, doers.

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