The posting
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.
With our user base growing by 30% last year, we are rapidly expanding into new verticals. This role sits within Grindr’s Health division and owns the end-to-end stack behind products that help our community access health information, resources, and services. As a Staff Full Stack engineer, you'll set the technical direction for how we architect, ship, and scale these experiences, working across the front-end and back-end with equal fluency. You’ll take ownership of our existing platforms like woodwork.com http://woodwork.com and build the user-facing experiences for our next generation of health-focused investments, while contributing to the backend services that power them.
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 person Tuesdays and Thursdays.
About the Job:
- You’ll be joining as one of the first full-time engineers in the healthcare vertical
- Own the design and development of Grindr's health web experiences, from UI architecture through to the APIs they depend on
- Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to turn designs into polished, accessible, high-performing product features
- Build and maintain frontend applications using Typescript, Next.js, React
- Contribute to Kotlin backend services and integrations using tools like Redis, Postgres, and Kafka on AWS services
- Innovate by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow
- Own frontend performance, reliability, and quality, and play a key role in optimizations and incident management
- Help guide and mentor team members through pairing sessions, code reviews, and architecture reviews
Role Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong focus on building user-facing web applications
- Deep experience with Typescript, Next.js, React and modern frontend tooling
- Experience building scalable frontend architecture, including state management, component design, and performance optimization
- Working experience with backend systems (service APIs, data processing, messaging services) in a microservice-based architecture
- Experience building on cloud services, AWS preferred
- Passionate about testing software and systems
- You love figuring things out and understanding how they work end-to-end
- Experience shipping production Node and JVM (Java, Kotlin, Scala) applications
You May Thrive in this Role if You:
- Have built and operated consumer-facing web products at scale, where performance 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
- Are data-driven by nature - you use data to make decisions regularly
- Thrive in a face-paced, startup-like environment
- Excel at working on multiple initiatives at once
- Find comfort in ambiguity
Benefits and Perks:
- Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
- Family Formation Up to $300,000 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
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 social impact initiative 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!
Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer.
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