Senior Engineering Manager

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office and will require you to be in the office Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What’s so interesting about this role?

Come play a key role in building the next generation of the Grindr app! Working within our Engineering Leadership team, you’ll have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest technologies, collaborate with a kind and exceptional team, and contribute to a one-of-a-kind app at a unique scale. The Grindr team continues to innovate as the largest social media app for the LGBTQ+ community. 

What will you work on

• Lead and Inspire: Hire, build and retain a high-performing, full-stack engineering team, cultivating a strong culture of excellence.

• Drive Execution at Scale: Deliver complex, cross-functional programs that directly support the company’s strategic and financial goals.

• Influence at the Top: Work at the intersection of business, product and engineering and represent engineering with senior leadership to shape high-impact initiatives.

• Champion Technical Evolution: Advance engineering best practices while guiding the team’s transformation into an AI-native organization.

• Foster a Thriving Team Culture: Build an inclusive, psychologically safe environment that values excellence, experimentation, humility and accountability.

• Balance Present and Future: Navigate trade-offs between short-term priorities and long-term innovation, adapting your leadership to changing needs.

What we are looking for

• Experienced People Leader: Led multiple teams and managers, coached senior engineers, and built diverse, high-performing organizations.

• Hands-On Management: Comfortable leading ICs directly, driving trust, accountability, and high-quality technical outcomes.

• Technically Fluent: Deep understanding of engineering systems; a credible partner to your team without needing to be hands-on daily.

• Cross-Functional Operator: Skilled at collaborating with Product, Design, Business, and external engineering teams to align on shared goals.

• Strategic and Decisive: Craft clear strategies, manage complexity, and deliver results in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.

• Customer-Centric Builder: Scaled consumer-facing products — ideally mobile — in high-growth tech environments.

What you'll love about us

• Mission and Impact: Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.

• Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.

• Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.

• Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.

• Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.

• Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.

About Grindr

With more than 13.5 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the LGBTQ+ community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just. Since 2015, Grindr for Equality has advanced safety, health, and human rights for millions of Grindr users and the global LGBTQ+ community in partnership with more than 100 community organizations in every region of the world.

Our next evolution is underway as a public company that continues to grow and build meaningful experiences for our users. From social issues to product innovations, we're setting audacious goals for our community and the business, and leveraging the latest tech stacks and a culture of engineering excellence to make it happen. At the heart of our work in this new chapter is a shared set of operating principles centered around cultivating curiosity, thinking big, setting and expediting our ambitious goals, and growing through iteration; all while keeping our users #1.

Grindr is headquartered in West Hollywood, California, with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. With a track record of strong financial performance and plans for continued headcount growth, we’re building a team of talented, passionate, and open-minded people who want to disrupt the dating app space, innovate products, and advance LGBTQ+ culture. Come be a part of this exciting journey with us.

Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer

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