Staff Full Stack Engineer

Join Grindr, the world's largest social networking app for the LGBTQ+ community, as a Staff Full Stack Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end stack behind Grindr's moderation, including tools used by human moderators, automated photo moderation, fraud and spam prevention, and regulatory compliance. You will set the technical direction for Grindr's moderation systems, build security, privacy, and accessibility into everything, and lead the integration of AI into the web stack. This position offers a range of benefits, including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, 401k matching, flexible PTO, equity for all employees, and more.

• Set the technical direction for Grindr's moderation systems, architecting, building, and delivering applications and services that span the full stack.
• Lead the integration of AI into how we build and operate the web stack, from developer tooling to product features.
• Raise the engineering bar across the team by mentoring engineers, leading code reviews, and influencing how the broader organization thinks about web architecture, performance, and reliability.
• 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
• 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
• Hands-on experience operating cloud-native systems on AWS or GCP, including the tradeoffs between managed services and self-hosted infrastructure
• 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
• 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
• Comprehensive understanding of database fundamentals with production experience across both relational and NoSQL systems
• You May Thrive in this Role if You:
• Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance, privacy, and reliability are non-negotiable
• Have experience working on distributed teams across time zones and borders
• 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