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Staff Full Stack Engineer, Health

Grindr· Engineering
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Hybrid (Palo Alto)$190k - $254kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Grindr is hiring a Staff Full Stack Engineer to own the end-to-end health web experiences within Grindr’s Health division, working across frontend and backend to architect, ship, and scale health-facing products and services.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:TypescriptNext.jsReactKotlin
Nice to have:AWS

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Grindr

The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.

Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.

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