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

What’s so interesting about this role?

Our team is growing because our user base is growing (30% in the last year!) which means we need you! We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who is passionate about building, testing, deploying and working closely with the Product team to deliver new features. You will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest systems, collaborate with a kind and capable team and contribute meaningfully.

What’s the job?

• 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, 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.

What we’ll love about you 

• 7+ 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 designing systems that make heavy and efficient use of Cloud Services (any cloud)
• Passionate about testing software and systems
• Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and trade-offs
• You love figuring things out and understand how they work end-to-end
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Experience with the JVM and at least one JVM language.Experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems
• We’ll really swoon if you have any of: 
• Experience developing Production systems using KotlinSQL, Kubernetes, or Kafka
• Experience developing or working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools, such as Github Actions or CircleCI.
• Experience of mentoring / skilling up less experienced developers.