Staff Full Stack Engineer

About Grindr Grindr is an AI-native consumer technology company shaping how millions in the gay community connect, express themselves, and navigate their lives in real time. With 15M+ monthly active users across 190+ countries, we're building the digital infrastructure for gay life – from connections and companionship to health, travel, and beyond. We use machine learning and AI across our product and platform to solve complex problems at scale, including connection relevance, safety, personalization, discovery, and trust. AI is built directly into how we design, build, and ship. We develop these systems responsibly, with a strong focus on user safety and tailored for the real experiences of millions who use Grindr every day. We're a profitable, publicly traded company. Every time we outperform, we prove what's possible when mission and business align. This isn't social work - it's impact through excellence. Every dollar we earn proves what our community can build and achieve. Join us in building technology that serves our community and changes what's possible.

Grindr

The Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™

Mobile ApplicationsSocial NetworksLocation-basedDigital MagazineAdvertisingPublisherProgrammaticSocial JusticeLGBTQDating App

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grindr.com

51-200 employees

Software Development

Los Angeles, California

2009

Public Company

35k LinkedIn followers

Raised $793M

• Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance, privacy, and reliability are non-negotiable
• Are energized by being the most senior engineer in the room on web — you make defensible decisions, document them, and stand behind them
• 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

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep production experience across both front-end and back-end systems
• Expert-level proficiency building user interfaces with React, including a strong 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) and the judgment to make architectural decisions that scale
• Hands-on experience operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCP, including the tradeoffs between managed services and self-hosted infrastructure
• Comprehensive understanding of database fundamentals with production experience across both relational and NoSQL systems
• Track record of leading technical work end-to-end at a Staff level — setting direction, driving execution across teams, and shipping outcomes without heavy process
• Embraces AI-native workflows — you actively use AI tools to increase your output quality and speed, and you're excited to work at a company where AI is core infrastructure, not a feature

• Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
• Family Formation Up to $300,000 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
• Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just.
• As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale.
• Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it’s impact through excellence. Business success is what gives us the power to serve our community and the seat at tables others can't reach. How we work is defined by Grindr Mode, our operating model that's moderately hardcore day-to-day and truly hardcore when it counts. We think like owners, drive real outcomes, create clarity through action, and push each other to go further than we thought possible.
• We’re headquartered in West Hollywood with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. Our work extends beyond the product through Grindr for Equality, our social impact initiative that's partnered with 100+ community organizations globally to advance safety, health, and human rights for LGBTQ+ people worldwide.
• We're profitable, growing, and building a team of smart, driven people who bring different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to the work. Want to build technology at a massive scale that serves millions? Come join us!
• Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer.