Software Engineer, Android

About The Team

Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and tackle technical problems at a scale few companies ever see. Come play a key role in building the next generation of the Grindr app! Working within 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 at a unique scale.

The Grindr team continues to innovate as the largest social media app for the LGBTQ+ community. At Grindr, we operate in Grindr Mode. Moderately hardcore day to day, truly hardcore when it counts. It’s about doing great work without burning out. Outcomes over outputs. Smart, driven people who raise your bar, with room to live full lives.

This is a hybrid role based in our Palo Alto office and will require you to be in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays.

• 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
• Building Android applications, including proficiency with:
• Programming in Kotlin
• Managing large codebases and maintaining clean, structured code that is easier to understand, modify, and debug
• Performance optimization for large, complex applications to provide a smooth user experience
• Designing applications with scalability in mind
• Software engineering collaboration best practices and design patterns including MVVM, Coordinator, one‑way data flow, and modular architecture

• You love taking ownership. You think beyond your team and know how to implement change across your organization
• You have at least 6 years of experience building complex Android applications
• 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 at a deep level but can also contribute to long‑term initiatives by mentoring your team
• 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

• Experience working with Kotlin Coroutines and Coroutine Flows

• Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
• Family Formation Up to $200,000 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…