Senior Backend Software Engineer

• Own the design and development of key backend services within Grindr’s microservices architecture
• Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to refine feature design and functionality
• Optimize the services you own using tools like Redis, Postgres, and Kafka on AWS
• Make data-driven recommendations on technology and architecture choices for the systems you support
• Own reliability and availability for your services, playing a key role in optimizations, cost reduction, and incident response

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees
• 401k Matching (up to 6%)
• Flexible PTO, sick-time, holidays, and two company wide shut-down weeks + an annual travel and leisure stipend
• Equity for all employees
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for food and wellness as well as fully catered onsite breakfast, lunch, and snacks
• Gender Affirmation Fund for transgender and gender non-conforming employees
• Queer-inclusive health benefits including LGBTQ consultative healthcare and expanded HRT shipped directly to employees in eligible states
• Monthly commuter stipend to get you to and from the office on in-person collaboration days
• Community projects and charitable giving stipend to support LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations alongside Grindr for Equality- Experience designing systems that make heavy and efficient use of cloud services, AWS preferred
• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer working on backend systems (service APIs, data processing, messaging services)
• Experience designing and implementing API systems for high load and data consistency in a microservice-based architecture
• You love figuring things out and understanding how systems work end to end
• Applies advanced prompting techniques for complex tasks, critically audits AI outputs for accuracy, and shares AI workflows with the team
• Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and trade-offs
• Passionate about testing software and systems
• Experience with the JVM and at least one JVM language such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala
• Enjoy mentoring and skilling up less experienced developers
• Have experience developing production systems using Kotlin and Kafka
• Have experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems