Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

Who you are

• Deep production experience across both front-end and back-end systems, with a track record of owning features or services end to end
• Strong proficiency building user interfaces with React, including a solid grasp of modern web performance, state management, and accessibility
• Strong back-end experience in at least one modern language (Java, Kotlin, Node.js, Python, or Go), with the judgment to make sound trade-offs between complexity, performance, and delivery speed
• Hands-on experience operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCP
• Solid understanding of database fundamentals, with production experience across Kafka and SQL
• Applies advanced AI prompting techniques for complex tasks, critically audits AI outputs, and documents and shares AI workflows with the team
• Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance, privacy, and reliability are non-negotiable
• Enjoy driving code review culture and mentoring engineers earlier in their careers
• Care equally about the system you're building and the experience it delivers
• Have experience working on distributed teams across time zones and borders

What the job involves

• This role sits on the Ecosystem Health team and owns the end-to-end stack behind Grindr's moderation — the tools used by human moderators, automated photo moderation, fraud and spam prevention, and regulatory compliance
• As a Staff engineer, you'll set the technical direction for how we architect, ship, and scale these systems, working across the front-end and back-end with equal fluency
• You'll partner directly with Product, Design, Marketing, and Backend Platform to make decisions that show up in production within weeks, not quarters
• The systems you build are trusted by millions of users to protect their privacy and serve them reliably at scale
• Own the React tools that power our human moderators, and their backend, from design through delivery
• Build and ship features across the full stack, coordinating with the teams whose work touches this surface
• Build security, privacy, and accessibility into everything you ship, millions of users trust Grindr to protect them
• Maintain existing third-party integrations and build new ones as we grow into being AI first
• Drive code review culture and champion testing and reliability practices, mentoring engineers through your own work
• Apply AI tools to your day-to-day engineering work and help build out the team's shared AI practices

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
• Community projects and charitable giving stipend to support LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations alongside Grindr for Equality
• 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