Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

• 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
• Gender Afffirmation 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

Applies advanced AI prompting techniques for complex tasks, critically audits AI outputs, and documents and shares AI workflows with the teamStrong proficiency building user interfaces with React, including a solid grasp of modern web performance, state management, and accessibilityHands-on experience operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCPSolid understanding of database fundamentals, with production experience across Kafka and SQLStrong 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 speedDeep production experience across both front-end and back-end systems, with a track record of owning features or services end to endHave built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance, privacy, and reliability are non-negotiableCare equally about the system you’re building and the experience it deliversEnjoy driving code review culture and mentoring engineers earlier in their careersHave experience working on distributed teams across time zones and borders