Tinder is a fun way to meet new people. Tinder finds out who likes you nearby, and connects you with them if you're also interested. We're a small team that's growing fast and we're looking for Senior Backend Engineers to work on our growing revenue team. The projects on our plate are amazing, and we're looking for talented people to meet the exciting technical challenges we face. If you're an intelligent and highly ambitious engineer, we want to talk to you!

This position is for either our Tinder LA HQ or our new Tinder Palo Alto office!

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

• Develop exciting new Tinder revenue features
• Help us scale to meet the ever growing Tinder user base and global audience
• Exposure to TB of data including billions of swipes per day
• Build tools & infrastructure to ensure 100% uptime of Tinder for all users across the world

We're looking for:

• Javascript expertise
• Experience with large scale distributed real-time systems
• NoSQL Databases such as MongoDB or Redis
• AWS experience preferred
• Passion for creating great products and solving unique problems
• API design experience
• Experience with scale and volume mobile backed systems
• Search & recommendation experience also preferred
• Experience with writing comprehensive unit and regression tests

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with a global audience, large scale system
• Experience with building ecommerce solution
• Familiar with important revenue KPI
• Experience with setting up key system metrics
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, or other big data tools
• A BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering from a top school, but a wonderful project list trumps all
• Prior startup experience is fantastic (but not necessary); being scrappy will help you hit the ground running.