Are you hungry to make an impact? Want to take a leading role in building systems that have an impact on millions of people? Do you feel at home working on a fast paced team? Then come join one of the best Trust and Safety teams in the world.

We’re a lean, cross-functional team of highly motivated engineers, data scientists, product managers, community moderators, and anti-fraud specialists. Our projects range from machine learning experiments, distributed systems monitoring, and abusive pattern analysis to building highly robust account review and moderation pipelines.

As Tinder continues to grow and create new and exciting experiences for our users, the challenge of maintaining a safe and protected experience grow ever-larger and more complicated – That’s where Tinder Trust comes in. Our team is responsible for creating a user experience free of abusive behavior such as spam, fake accounts, scams, and toxic behavior, using a combination of state-of-the-art machine learning, human analysis, distributed systems engineering, deep cross-team collaboration, and anything else in-between!

Some projects we work on include:

Account Integrity: Systems for detecting and preventing attempts to create fake accounts, bots, and other forms of bad accounts that utilize various ML techniques, i.e. computer vision, supervised and unsupervised learning models

Anti-spam: Content and behavioral ML based detection of known and emerging spam patterns

Toxic behavior: Detecting and flagging interpersonal abuse (via NLP, user reports), as well as striving to educate our users and improve the overall health of interaction on Tinder

Data transparency: Online portal where our users can download their own Tinder data

Tinder Central: Building, maintaining, and consuming Tinder Central, our internal tools platform, which provides a streamlined experience for incorporating automation into team workflows across the Product, Community, Marketing, and Engineering teams.

And much more in the works!

This role is based in Los Angeles, CA and we will move you here!

As a Tech Lead on our Trust Engineering team, you will:

• Work closely with engineering and product leadership to prioritize initiatives to deliver the greatest value to the business
• Drive architectural decisions, design, implementation, and operation of our internal tools platform, including security, accessibility, and user experience considerations
• Split time between hands-on coding and managing a team
• Collaborate across various teams, including product, devops, platform, clients, community, etc.
• Ensure that technical designs support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability, and security
• Recruit, inspire, and develop team members
• Drive new technical initiatives that will ultimately improve the day-to-day efficiency of all users of the internal tools platform

We're looking for:

• 3+ years full-stack project leadership experience, including API design and UI wireframing, with hands-on implementation of both
• Experience designing and architecting full stack applications, including API design and UI wireframing
• Experience working in a collaborative team environment
• Extensive experience working with modern front-end web frameworks (React, Vue, etc)
• Hands-on experience with database technologies (either SQL or NoSQL)
• AWS experience preferred
• Eagerness to keep learning and growing, and a passion for providing mentorship
• Passionate about making high user impact and moving key metrics
• A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering from a top school, but a wonderful project list is even better

Bonus points if you have:

• 1+ years leading a team of 3+ software engineers, including coaching and mentoring individuals to grow in their technical capacity
• Hands-on native mobile development experience
• UX/UI Design experience
• Leadership experience
• Run A/B tests and analyzed the results
• NodeJS or Java experience

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy:

• The hustle of a startup with the impact of a global business
• Tremendous opportunity to solve some of the industry’s most important challenges
• Working with an extraordinary team of smart, creative, fun and highly motivated people
• Comprehensive health coverage, competitive salary, 401(k) match and meaningful equity
• Unlimited vacation and flexible working hours
• Daily catered lunches, endless supply of refreshments, basketball court, fitness classes and social events
• Modern, uplifting work environment in an ideal location
• And much more...