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.

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.

About Grindr: 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 nonprofit 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! The Grindr Way: Two years ago, we had a choice: stay a category-defining app, or become something bigger. We chose bigger. We rebuilt the company from the ground up with new leadership, new technical infrastructure, and new ambition. Today we're a platform serving millions across 190+ countries, with AI at the center of everything we build and how we build it. We're 200 people running one of the world's largest real-time systems: millions of interactions daily, powered by AI that gets smarter with every connection. Startup energy with public company resources. At most companies, experimentation hits red tape. Here, the default is yes. Our team is world-class, the roadmap is full, and we're just getting started. 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. 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 Medellín hub and will require you to be in person Tuesdays and Thursdays. With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world. Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.

•Be a part of the engineering team where we implement new features and work closely with the product and design teams •Build for the future by designing maintainable and well-tested systems to serve a global audience of millions of concurrent users (we’re big!) •Own the design and development of Grindr’s backend services in a stable and scalable microservices architecture •Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to refine feature design and functionality •Build for the future by designing and testing simple, elegant, maintainable software •Optimize key pieces of Grindr's platform using tools like Redis, Postgres, and Kafka on AWS services •Innovate by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow •Ensure high availability of the Grindr platform through distributed systems and infrastructure engineering •Help guide and mentor team members through pairing sessions, code reviews, and architecture reviews. •Troubleshoot unexpected issues across various systems because being the most popular is hard… and fun :) •Take a prominent role in optimizations, cost savings, and incident responses.

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer developing critical portions of working on Backend Systems (Service APIs, Data Processing, Messaging Services) • Experience designing and implementing large-scale Web or API systems for high load and data consistency • Experience with Kotlin or at least one JVM language is required. • Experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems • Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and trade-offs • You love figuring things out and understanding how they work end-to-end • Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery • Experience with SQL and general knowledge of database systems Nice to Haves: • Experience of mentoring / skilling up less experienced developers. • Experience developing or working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools, such as Github Actions or CircleCI. • Experience designing systems that make heavy and efficient use of Cloud Services (any cloud)