Senior Software Engineer, Android

The Role

The Engineering team is responsible for building innovative features and resilient systems that bring people together. We're always experimenting with new features to engage with our members. Although we are a high-scale tech company, the member-to-engineer ratio is very high—making the level of impact each engineer gets to have at Tinder enormous.

As an Android engineer at Tinder, you will have an outsized impact and ownership of the most visible aspects of the Tinder App. We are deeply invested in challenging norms, constantly improving architecture design, exploring emergent tech and ideas, and leveraging new technologies in interesting ways to deliver an app that is widely known the world over.

Where you’ll work

This is a hybrid role and requires in-office collaboration three days per week. This position is located in Ghent, Belgium.

In this role, you will

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of consumer-facing features in the Tinder App.
• Build new compelling in-app experiences that will reach millions of users globally.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers and designers to influence the roadmap and product development of Tinder’s App and services.
• Create and maintain internal shared frameworks and libraries.
• Mentor, collaborate, and learn with innovative and passionate team members

You'll Need

5+ years of professional experience building native Android applications

Significant experience building applications in Kotlin

Hands-on experience with Jetpack Compose

A strong software architect well versed in design patterns (e.g. you've worked with MVP, Clean/MVVM, and know the benefits of each. You've written your own Repositories and Factories)

Understanding of the value of Dependency Injection and has implemented Dagger

Experienced in Coroutines

Experience writing and maintaining unit tests

Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based coding assistants) to boost productivity

Fluent in English, both written and spoken, with excellent communication skills.

Willingness and ability collaborate with stakeholders who are located in different time zones.

Strong communication and collaboration skills that thrives in a team-oriented environment

Proactive, curious, and always looking for ways to learn and improve

Comfort working cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering teams

Adaptave and positive in a fast-changing, agile environments

Nice to have

• Experience designing and architecting full-stack applications, including API design and UI wireframing
• Someone who understands material design guidelines (e.g. you know how to be a good Android citizen while maintaining a strong unique brand identity)…