Hybrid Staff Software Engineer, Android

at Grindr

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer, Android
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $152,000 - $203,000 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Android, Kotlin
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer building Android applications for Grindr. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to modernize and optimize the Grindr platform in a hybrid work setting.

Responsibilities

• 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