Staff Software Engineer, iOS
About The Position
The Ecosystem Health team at Grindr owns the tools that keep the platform safe, including both human moderator tools and automated systems. This team also partners with legal on features like age assurance, transparency reporting, and other legal requirements. As an iOS engineer on this team, you will own critical safety and security features, support new feature development, work to keep bad actors off the platform, and safeguard user safety. Grindr operates in 'Grindr Mode,' emphasizing impactful work without burnout, focusing on outcomes, and fostering a collaborative environment with smart, driven individuals. This is a hybrid role based in Chicago, requiring office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Requirements
- Love taking ownership.
- Think beyond your team and know how to implement change across your organization.
- At least 6 years of experience building complex iOS applications.
- Well-built technical experience that inspires individual contributors' creativity and innovation.
- Experience with product leadership and technical decision-making and know how to leverage that for good judgments and tradeoffs between product and code.
- Experience working closely with various levels of business stakeholders, from the c-suite, VP level, and down.
- Ability to jump into the code on a deep level.
- Strong practical knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns such as MVVM, Coordinator, one-way data flow, modular architecture, performance optimization & metrics.
- Experience with Architecture at scale and have worked with different tech stacks outside of mobile.
Nice To Haves
- Professional Experience with RxSwift or any functional reactive programming framework.
- Professional Experience with Coordinators and/or RxFlow.
Responsibilities
- Owning some of our most important safety and security features as an iOS engineer.
- Supporting new feature development.
- Keeping bad actors off the platform.
- Working to safeguard our users’ safety.
- Working collaboratively with a brilliant cross-functional, cross-timezone team to make Grindr the best app it can be for its users.
- Working across multiple work streams and using ambiguity as an opportunity for high-level thinking.
- Creating innovation by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflows.
- Elevating your team's technical proficiency; helping your team adopt new tools and ways of working.
- Evolving and maintaining the software architecture for current and future needs in order to develop highly innovative, consumer-facing mobile products, while supporting the product roadmap.
- Mentoring your team.
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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
