Android Software Engineer II – Recs Experience

Tinder; Palo Alto, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Health insurance

401(k) employer match

ESPP

Parental leave

Professional development

Commuter subsidy

Tinder Gold

Job summary

Tinder is hiring a Software Engineer II (Android) for the Recs Experience team. This hybrid role in Palo Alto, CA, focuses on building consumer-facing recommendation features, connecting logic, APIs, and experiments to polished Android experiences used by millions worldwide.

You’ll work with cross-functional partners, own features end-to-end, and ensure code quality, performance, and user satisfaction. The team emphasizes AI-assisted tools and scalable architecture.

Qualifications

• Approximately 2+ years of professional experience building and shipping production, consumer-facing applications with native Android technologies.
• Proficiency in Kotlin and modern Android development, including Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Experience building user-facing features with Jetpack Compose and familiarity with Android Views and interoperability.
• Experience using Android Studio, Gradle, and the Android SDK throughout the application-development lifecycle.
• Experience consuming REST APIs and integrating mobile features with backend services.
• Familiarity with MVVM and separation of UI, business logic, and data access.
• Experience with Git and code-review workflows.
• Ability to write testable, maintainable code and create unit/UI tests (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso, or Compose UI testing).
• Strong debugging and code-quality fundamentals; able to give/receive actionable feedback.
• Clear, solution-oriented communication and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Ownership mindset with ability to deliver well-scoped work from implementation to launch validation.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of consumer-facing recommendation features in the Tinder Android app.
• Build polished, intuitive experiences that connect recommendation logic, APIs, experiments, analytics, and validation for millions of members worldwide.
• Own well-scoped features and components through planning, testing, launch, and validation with increasing independence.
• Collaborate with Android and backend engineers, Product, Design, Data Science/Analytics, QA, ML, Infrastructure, and partner teams across Tinder.
• Write maintainable, testable Kotlin code and help protect app health, performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Build modern Android interfaces with Jetpack Compose while integrating with existing View-based code where needed.
• Investigate bugs, ANRs, performance regressions, and quality issues; identify root causes and add tests/monitoring.
• Contribute to modular Android architecture, shared libraries, and engineering practices that boost team effectiveness.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs clearly and proactively.
• Develop expertise in Tinder’s Android architecture, card-stack, and recommendation systems toward end-to-end ownership.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve prototyping, implementation, testing, delivery speed, and quality.

Job description

Tinder is hiring a Software Engineer II (Android) for the Recs Experience team. This hybrid role in Palo Alto, CA, focuses on building consumer-facing recommendation features, connecting logic, APIs, and experiments to polished Android experiences used by millions worldwide.

You’ll work with cross-functional partners, own features end-to-end, and ensure code quality, performance, and user satisfaction. The team emphasizes AI-assisted tools and scalable architecture.