Software Engineer, Backend

Our Mission:

Launched in 2012, Tinder® revolutionized how people meet, growing from 1 match to one billion matches in just two years. This rapid growth demonstrates its ability to fulfill a fundamental human need: real connection. Today, the app has been downloaded over 630 million times, leading to over 97 billion matches, serving approximately 50 million users per month in 190 countries and 45+ languages - a scale unmatched by any other app in the category. In 2024, Tinder won four Effie Awards for its first-ever global brand campaign, “It Starts with a Swipe”™

Our Values:

One Team, One Dream

We work hand-in-hand, building Tinder for our members. We succeed together when we work collaboratively across functions, teams, and time zones, and think outside the box to achieve our company vision and mission.

Own It

We take accountability and strive to make a positive impact in all aspects of our business, through ownership, innovation, and a commitment to excellence.

Never Stop Learning

We cultivate a culture where it’s safe to take risks. We seek out input, share honest feedback, celebrate our wins, and learn from our mistakes in order to continue improving.

Spark Solutions

We’re problem solvers, focusing on how to best move forward when faced with obstacles. We don’t dwell on the past or on the issues at hand, but instead look at how to stay agile and overcome hurdles to achieve our goals.

Embrace Our Differences

We are intentional about building a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members. By leveraging different perspectives and other ways of thinking, we build better experiences for our members and our team.

The Role:

The Team: The Engineering team is responsible for building innovative features and resilient systems that bring people together. We're always experimenting with new features to engage with our members. Although we are a high-scale tech company, the member-to-engineer ratio is very high—making the level of impact each engineer gets to have at Tinder enormous.The Tinder Revenue team is a passionate group of engineers determined to provide a premium and best-in-class experience for our members! Through our mission to monetize the global Tinder experience via subscription and a la carte products, we have become one of the top-grossing apps in the world. As an engineer here, you'll have the unique opportunity to contribute to a company with a global footprint while working on a small and agile team that can impact the user experience in a meaningful way!

Where you’ll work: This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration twice per week. This position is located in Los Angeles.

Our Values

• Member Safety: Our top priority is to build an authentic, equitable, and respectful community

• Diversity: We strive to build a workplace that reflects the rich diversity of our members

• Authenticity + Collaboration: We encourage authenticity to nurture a trustworthy, collaborative environment

• Big Ideas : We champion and rally behind big ideas, empowering people to to think and act differently and to be unafraid of having a strong point of view

• Innovation : We never stand still; we’re inspired to build for what’s next, and we must constantly innovate, experiment, and learn

In this role, you will:

• Develop exciting new Tinder revenue-driving features

• Improve our product offering and billing platformsImprove subscriber retention while driving conversions and reducing churn

• Help us scale to meet the ever-growing Tinder user base and global audience

• Collaborate with various technical and functional teams across our company

• Gain exposure to terabytes of data including billions of swipes a day

• Own all aspects of software engineering and product development

• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews

• Design and conduct software tests.

• Build highly reliable software solutions

• Develop system engineering, software engineering, system integration, or distributed system architectures.

• Communicate with team and stakeholders to understand specific system requirements.

• Perform ongoing software maintenance operations, including installing or upgrading software.

• Monitor system operation to detect potential problems

You'll need:

• 2 - 5 years of software industry experience

• Experience designing and building low latency distributed backend systems at scale

• Excellent knowledge and experience with a backend language like Java, Node.JS, Go, or Python

• Strong knowledge of backend architecture and when to make tradeoffs

• Passion to solve unique and challenging problems

• Very strong communication skills

• An advocate for good code quality and best engineering practices

• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL Databases such as Postgres, DynamoDB or Redis

• Ability to dive into low level details and convert product requirements into precise technical design

• Critical thinking skills

• Ability to solve complex problems

Nice to have:

• Experience building e-commerce solutions

• Experience with building payment and fraud detection solutions

• Experience building or optimizing revenue features

• Experience integrating with iOS/Android app stores

• An understanding of important revenue metrics

• Programming experience in Javascript/Typescript and Node.js

• Experience with AWS, ElasticSearch, and Kafka

• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or similar field

Salary Range:

$130,000 - $145,000 a year

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.