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Tinder

Dating app platform with freemium model

Back-end Engineer - Trust & Safety, Go

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A strong interest in improving development efficiency, performance, and security.
  • Ownership and communication skills to effectively involve stakeholders and achieve results.
  • Willingness to learn about AI and experience developing with coding agents.
  • At least three years of experience implementing, releasing, and operating commercial applications.
  • Experience building commercial Web APIs running on public cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Experience constructing and designing various testing methods.
  • Experience creating and operating commercial container images for web applications, including Dockerfiles and installation of required middleware.
  • Basic knowledge of middleware commonly used in web applications, such as Nginx and MySQL.
  • Business-level or higher Japanese proficiency and conversational-level or higher English proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Design, apply to Pairs, and operate mechanisms to reduce risks from violations, malicious use, and policy breaches in Trust & Safety.
  • Review and analyze user behavior, system logs, and initiative results to assess risk signals and trends, the scale of issues, and the effectiveness of initiatives.
  • Continuously improve mechanisms supporting Trust & Safety detection, prevention, investigation, and response as risk patterns change.
  • Collaborate with Trust & Safety stakeholders, Data Analysts, product backend teams, SRE teams, and security teams to improve quality, performance, security, and operability, while deterring misuse, protecting users, and improving trust in Pairs.
  • Continuously review and analyze data about violating or malicious users, assess risks and impacts, and rapidly implement and improve necessary countermeasures.
  • Design, develop, and operate backend systems supporting Trust & Safety detection, prevention, investigation, and response.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience analyzing user behavior, system logs, and initiative results in changing risk areas such as misuse, abuse, and policy violations; assessing risk signals, trends, and effectiveness; and continually improving detection, prevention, and response mechanisms.
  • Ability to independently extract, aggregate, and analyze data within a defined scope, with Data Analyst support as needed, to assess issue scale, priority, countermeasure suitability, and initiative impact.
  • Experience independently analyzing and evaluating rapidly changing user behaviors or risk patterns and using the results to guide development and improvements.
  • Experience or knowledge designing scalable databases and applications that account for large data volumes and access levels.
  • Experience using AI development-assistance tools to improve development workflows, code quality, documentation, and team productivity.
  • Experience building application deployment scripts or Dockerfiles in container environments.
  • Experience or knowledge building public cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Knowledge of basic security measures and their necessity for web applications.

About the Company

Tinder

Dating app platform with freemium model

Tinder is an online dating platform where users swipe right to like or left to pass on profiles, which can lead to matches and conversations. It operates globally with hundreds of millions of users across many countries and languages, using a freemium model with paid tiers (Tinder Plus, Tinder Gold, Tinder Platinum) and in-app purchases for extras like unlimited swipes and the passport feature to swipe around the world. It stands out through its massive global user base, broad language support, a tiered premium structure, and a strong brand presence backed by campaigns and awards. Its goal is to help people meet and start conversations at scale by making it easy to discover potential partners around the world.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$750M
Headquarters
West Hollywood, CA
Founded
2012

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