Full-Time

Staff Software Engineer

Martech

Tinder

Tinder

1,001-5,000 employees

Dating app platform with freemium model

Compensation Overview

$225k - $250k/yr

Palo Alto, CA, USA

Hybrid

Three days on-site per week required.

Category
Software Engineering (2)
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Required Skills
Kotlin
Claude
Python
Go
iOS/Swift
REST APIs
Android Development
DevOps

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Requirements
  • 6+ years building and shipping production software, with strong experience on iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin), including SDK integration and the App Store / Play Store release lifecycles
  • Solid full-stack / backend chops: building and operating APIs and server-side services in a modern language (e.g. Node, Python, Go, or Kotlin)
  • A track record of setting technical direction, making sound architecture decisions under ambiguity, and raising the bar for the engineers around you
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and working with a data warehouse
  • Comfort owning work end to end and moving freely between clients and the backend
  • Demonstrated ability to take ambiguous or unowned problems and drive them to resolution
  • Active, effective use of AI tooling (Claude Code, Copilot, etc.) to ramp on unfamiliar code and ship faster
  • Experience building MCP servers/tools, or a strong interest in doing so, to expose our platforms to Claude and other agents
  • Clear communication: you'll work directly with marketers and analysts, not just engineers
Responsibilities
  • Owning the bigger picture: Building the technical roadmap for our central MarTech services
  • Defining the architecture other engineers build against
  • Setting the engineering standards for the team
  • Identify opportunities for new systems or capabilities within existing systems.
  • MarTech implementation - keeping our foundational MarTech stack on the clients healthy and well-maintained:
  • Marketing and attribution event instrumentation in our iOS and Android apps
  • Privacy and consent handling
  • Event delivery that feeds our attribution partners, ad platforms, and data warehouse
  • Marketing operations tooling - architecting the platforms and services marketers and analysts run on:
  • Programmatic ad-platform management
  • Marketing tooling such as creative management systems and audience syncing
  • AI/agent-driven workflows and MCP’s
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with marketing / attribution SDKs (AppsFlyer, Firebase, Adjust, Branch), SKAdNetwork, and the Google Play Install Referrer API
  • Ad-platform APIs (Meta, Google Ads, TikTok) and server-side tracking (Meta CAPI, server-side GTM)
  • Experience building LLM-powered or agentic tooling, including MCP
  • MarTech / AdTech domain background

Tinder is an online dating platform that lets people create profiles and swipe on others to express interest, leading to matches and conversations. It operates on a freemium model where basic features are free and premium tiers (Plus, Gold, Platinum) plus in-app purchases unlock extras like unlimited swipes and global swiping with Passport. Its size and language coverage set it apart, with hundreds of millions of users across many countries and languages, and a strong brand presence. The goal is to help people meet and start conversations at scale by making dating easier and more accessible worldwide.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$750M

Headquarters

West Hollywood, California

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Q2 2026 Tinder matches rose 14% and DAU declines narrowed to 4%.
  • Tinder Events drove 71% engagement among 18-24 users in Los Angeles.
  • RPP rose 4% to $17.90 as product changes improved monetization quality.

What critics are saying

  • Six women sued Match Group on December 16, 2025 over a convicted rapist.
  • Tinder payers fell 5% to 8.5 million in Q2 2026.
  • Bot abuse and AI scams can destroy trust before verification fixes land.

What makes Tinder unique

  • Tinder Events scaled from Los Angeles to 10 cities by August 2026.
  • World verification launched in Japan, then expanded to U.S. markets in 2026.
  • Double Date, Music Mode, and Chemistry target Gen Z swipe fatigue.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Mental Health Support

Parental Leave

Fertility Treatment Support

Childcare Support

Pet Insurance

Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-1%
Bloomberg
May 5th, 2026
Tinder returns to new user growth as Match Group revenue hits $864M

Match Group reported first-quarter revenue of $864 million, up 4% year-on-year and beating analysts' estimates of $855 million. The company said the decline in Tinder users has moderated, suggesting its turnaround strategy is gaining traction with younger daters. Match cited growing momentum from Tinder's ongoing product enhancements as a key driver of the performance.

Fox Business
Apr 18th, 2026
Tinder partners with Sam Altman's World for eye-scan verification to combat AI-driven romance scams

Tinder is partnering with World, formerly Worldcoin, to use eye-scanning technology to verify users are human amid rising concerns over AI-powered romance scams. Romance scammers netted over $300 million in 2020, according to the company. World, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, uses a spherical device called "the Orb" to verify humanness through temporary memory that isn't stored. Following verification, users receive a badge proving they're real, which Tinder says will lead to higher-quality connections. Verified users will also receive five free "Boosts" for a limited time. The verification system launched as a pilot in Japan through Tinder's parent company Match Group and will expand to US users. Other companies adopting World's "proof of human" technology include Zoom, Docusign, Shopify and Coinbase.

Tech in Asia
Apr 9th, 2026
Tinder adds facial verification in Singapore amid 7% user decline and legal pressure

Tinder has launched a facial verification feature in Singapore, requiring users to submit video selfies that are deleted after review while an encrypted face map is stored to verify photos and detect fraud. The rollout comes as Tinder faces declining engagement, with paying users down 7% in 2024 and millennials reducing daily dating app usage from 90 minutes in 2018 to 56 minutes in 2024. The company also faces legal pressure after six women sued Match Group in December 2025, alleging failure to remove a convicted rapist despite repeated reports. Singapore's Online Criminal Harms Act requires social media companies to implement facial recognition to combat impersonation scams. The country pioneered facial verification for its national digital ID system, SingPass, in 2020.

Wired
Mar 20th, 2026
Tinder unveils rebrand with AI features to fix dating culture it helped create

Tinder has unveiled over a dozen new features as part of a rebrand under CEO Spencer Rascoff, aiming to shift focus from matches to meaningful connections. The world's most popular dating app has seen paying members drop 8% to 8.8 million in Q4 2025. Key features include Double Date, which pairs users with friends to swipe together, astrology-based matching, and Chemistry, an AI tool analysing camera rolls to understand interests. The company is also enhancing safety features like "Are You Sure?" for potentially harmful messages. The rebrand marks an attempt to revitalise a dating landscape many say Tinder helped ruin. Launched in 2012, the app popularised swipe-based dating but has struggled to innovate as users began treating digital courtship like a game. Rascoff stated the company's priorities have shifted: "Just getting matches is not the goal.

Bloomberg
Mar 12th, 2026
Tinder launches video speed dating and AI features to attract Gen Z users

Tinder has announced new app updates featuring several AI-powered tools and a video speed dating function, as the dating platform attempts to attract Gen Z users. The company is integrating deeper artificial intelligence capabilities into its service whilst adding video-based features to modernise the user experience. The updates represent Tinder's latest effort to revitalise its brand and appeal to younger audiences in an increasingly competitive dating app market.