Staff Full Stack Engineer (Health)

• You’ll be joining as one of the first full-time engineers in the healthcare vertical
• Own the design and development of Grindr’s health web experiences, from UI architecture through to the APIs they depend on
• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to turn designs into polished, accessible, high-performing product features
• Build and maintain frontend applications using Typescript, Next.js, React
• Contribute to Kotlin backend services and integrations using tools like Redis, Postgres, and Kafka on AWS services
• Innovate by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow
• Own frontend performance, reliability, and quality, and play a key role in optimizations and incident management
• Help guide and mentor team members through pairing sessions, code reviews, and architecture reviews

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 building on cloud services, AWS preferred
• Deep experience with Typescript, Next.js, React and modern frontend tooling
• Experience shipping production Node and JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala) applications
• Passionate about testing software and systems
• Working experience with backend systems (service APIs, data processing, messaging services) in a microservice-based architecture
• You love figuring things out and understanding how they work end-to-end
• 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on building user-facing web applications
• Experience building scalable frontend architecture, including state management, component design, and performance optimization
• Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance and reliability are non-negotiable
• Care equally about the system you’re building and the experience it delivers — modern web design fundamentals and UX instincts inform how you write code
• Have experience working on distributed teams across time zones and borders
• Thrive in a face-paced, startup-like environment
• Are data-driven by nature - you use data to make decisions regularly
• Excel at working on multiple initiatives at once
• Find comfort in ambiguity