iOS Software Engineer II - Recs Experience

PowerToFly; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Sick days

Volunteer time

Health, vision, dental

401(k) match

ESPP

Parental leave

Udemy courses stipend

Commuter benefits

Free Tinder Gold

Job summary

Tinder is seeking a Software Engineer II on the Recs Experience team for iOS. You’ll help build experiences that shape what Tinder members see, how recommendations appear, and how profiles turn into matches and conversations.

You’ll partner with backend engineers to deliver features end to end, connecting recommendation logic, APIs, and experiments to polished iOS experiences. This hybrid role is based in Palo Alto, with in‑office collaboration three days a week.

Qualifications

• Approx. 2+ years of professional experience building production iOS apps.
• Proficiency in Swift and modern iOS development, including SwiftUI and Swift Concurrency.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of consumer-facing recommendation features in the Tinder iOS app.
• Build polished, intuitive experiences that connect recommendation logic, APIs, experiments, analytics, and quality validation for millions of members worldwide.
• Own well-scoped features and components from planning and implementation through testing, experiment launch, and validation, with increasing independence.
• Collaborate closely with iOS and backend engineers, Product, Design, Data Science and Analytics, QA, ML, Infrastructure, and partner teams across Tinder.
• Write maintainable, well-tested Swift code and help protect app health, performance, reliability, and member experience.
• Investigate bugs and quality issues using a structured approach, identify root causes, and add appropriate tests or monitoring to reduce regression risk.
• Contribute to shared frameworks, technical improvements, code reviews, and engineering practices that make the team more effective.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs clearly and proactively.
• Develop expertise in Tinder’s iOS architecture and recommendation systems while progressing toward broader, end-to-end project ownership.
• Use AI-assisted development tools effectively and responsibly to improve prototyping, implementation, testing, delivery speed, and quality.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

iOS development

REST APIs

Git

Xcode

Testing

Problem solving

Tools

XCUITest

Job description

Tinder is seeking a Software Engineer II on the Recs Experience team for iOS. You’ll help build experiences that shape what Tinder members see, how recommendations appear, and how profiles turn into matches and conversations.

You’ll partner with backend engineers to deliver features end to end, connecting recommendation logic, APIs, and experiments to polished iOS experiences. This hybrid role is based in Palo Alto, with in‑office collaboration three days a week.