Staff Full Stack 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
• Set the technical direction for Grindr’s moderation systems — architect, build, and deliver applications and services that span the full stack and work seamlessly across devices
• Be the point person for the React tools that enable our human moderators and its associated backend
• Build security, privacy, and accessibility into everything — millions of users trust Grindr to protect them, and the bar for what ships is yours to hold
• Maintain existing third-party integrations and develop new integrations as we pivot to being AI first
• Raise the engineering bar across the team — mentor engineers, lead code reviews with empathy, and influence how the broader org thinks about web architecture, performance, and reliability
• Lead the integration of AI into how we build and operate the web stack — from developer tooling to product features

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

• 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
• 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
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep production experience across both front-end and back-end systems
• Comprehensive understanding of database fundamentals with production experience across both relational and NoSQL systems
• 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
• You May Thrive in this Role if You:
• Are energized by being the most senior engineer in the room on web — you make defensible decisions, document them, and stand behind them
• Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance, privacy, 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