Staff Software Engineer, Android

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago or Bay Area Offices (San Francisco or Palo Alto) and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What’s so interesting about this role?

Come play a key role in building the next generation of the Grindr app! Working on our Android team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest technologies, collaborate with a kind and capable team, and contribute to a one-of-a-kind app. The Grindr team continues to innovate as the largest social media app in its category.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the Android team, Product Managers, and our QA team to build and maintain a fast, reliable, app. We deeply value ownership, empowerment, proactivity, data-driven decisions, and user focus. You’ll be an important voice in our product & software architecture decisions.

What’s the job?

• Working collaboratively with a brilliant cross-functional, cross-timezone team to make Grindr the best app it can be for its users
• Able to work across multiple work streams and use ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking.
• Create innovation by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow
• Elevate your team's technical proficiency; help your team adopt new tools and ways of working
• Using the latest Android technologies you will be evolving and maintaining the software architecture for current and future needs in order to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing mobile products while supporting the product roadmap

What we'll love about you 

• You have at least 6+ years of experience building complex Android applications with deep expertise in Kotlin and Coroutines 
• Strong practical knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns such as MVVM, Coordinator, one-way data flow, modular architecture, performance optimization & metrics
• Experience with Architecture at scale and have worked with different tech stacks outside of mobile.
• You love taking ownership. You think beyond your team and know how to implement change across your organization.
• You have a well-built technical experience that inspires individual contributors' creativity and innovation. 
• You have experience with product leadership and technical decision-making and know how to leverage that for good judgments and tradeoffs between product and code
• You have been working closely with various levels of business stakeholders, from the c-suite, VP level, and down.
• You can jump into the code on a deep level but can also contribute to long-term initiatives by mentoring your team.

We'll really swoon if you have 

• You have experience working with Coroutine Flows, dependency injection frameworks
• Have systematic ways to refactor legacy code and can provide effective proposals to relevant stakeholders