Staff Android Engineer

About the Company

We are the world’s largest dating app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. With around 13 million monthly active users, we have become a fundamental part of the global LGBTQ community, and we take pride in empowering our users to connect, express themselves, and discover the queer world around them.

Our next evolution is underway as a newly public company looking to expand and continue to build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to original content, we’re blazing innovative paths with impact for our community, all while leveraging the latest tech stacks and striving for engineering excellence. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of core values: openness and exploration, a bias for action, and strong support of the LGBTQ community.

With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re looking to build a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who believe in our mission, align with our values, and are excited to work at the intersection of innovative technology and social impact. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.

What’s so interesting about this role?

Working on our Android team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest technologies, collaborate with a kind and capable team, and contribute to a one-of-a-kind app. The team continues to innovate as the largest social media app in its category, with over 5M daily active users and 15M monthly active users.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with, the iOS team, Product Managers, and our QA team to build and maintain a fast, reliable, app. We deeply value ownership, empowerment, proactivity, data-driven decisions, and user focus. You’ll be an important voice in our product and software architecture decisions.

What’s the Job?

Use the latest technologies to develop highly innovative consumer mobile products

Designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing elegant mobile solutions

Working collaboratively with a brilliant cross-functional team to make it the best app it can be for its users

Working directly with quality engineers to identify test cases and devise efficient, scalable testing processes to allow us to run weekly releases

Owning projects and deeply understanding the why behind them

Collaborating effectively across our engineering teams in North America and Taiwan

What we’ll love about you

You have a B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Experience serving as a subject matter expert with a high level of autonomy

You have 6-20+ years of experience building Android applications

Experience in Kotlin

You have experience with large Android codebases and complex, high-performance apps

Strong practical knowledge of software engineering best practices and design patterns such as MVVM

You have experience with Android app performance optimization and metrics

You’re a strong problem solver and a fast learner

You’re compassionate, collaborative, and deeply care for the people around you

You’re passionate about top-quality code and using the latest best practices

You’re mission-driven

You build software with your users and their needs top of mind

You enjoy shipping products, measuring value to users, and iterating

We’ll really swoon if you have

You have experience working with Kotlin Coroutines and Coroutine Flows

You have experience working with international teams

What you'll love about us

Mission and Impact: We are the world-leading LGTBQ social networking service. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGTBQ people around the world

Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents

Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the US

Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs

Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more

Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, and food, one-time home-office setup stipend, and company-sponsored events

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

Base salary: $200,000-$275,000 USD base