Founding Full Stack Engineer, AI Incubation
Match Group2 months ago
Base Salary
$300k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end product experiences across frontend applications, backend services, agent workflows, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and internal tooling.
- Design AI-powered systems for understanding user intent, reasoning about compatibility, personalizing recommendations, and improving through feedback.
- Partner with product, design, and research to create prototypes, pilots, and production-ready features.
- Use modern AI development workflows and engineering practices to rapidly turn ideas into working products.
- Instrument products with analytics, event tracking, dashboards, and experimentation tools.
- Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and performance of systems and workflows.
- Define the early system architecture and technical roadmap and advise Match Group leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience at Staff, Principal, founding engineer, technical lead, or equivalent level.
- Track record of building and shipping consumer products in fast-moving, zero-to-one, early-stage, or startup environments.
- Deep full-stack technical range across product surfaces, backend systems, data architecture, infrastructure, and production operations.
- Experience with mobile development using React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, or similar technologies.
- Experience with modern AI development workflows and building AI-powered products used by real users.
- Strong technical judgment around reliability, privacy, security, observability, maintainability, and scale.
- Clear communication skills and ability to partner with product, design, research, engineering, and senior leadership.
- Ability to operate independently without a large team, detailed specifications, or a fixed roadmap.
- Strong judgment around consumer trust, identity, privacy, and emotionally personal user experiences.
- Preferred experience includes dating, social discovery, consumer social, messaging, marketplaces, creator platforms, gaming, community products, or subscription-based consumer products.
- Preferred experience includes AI-native consumer products, recommendation or ranking systems, personalization, matching, marketplace liquidity, network effects, consumer discovery systems, founding roles, or zero-to-one product building.
Benefits
- The team works together in person three days per week.
- Medical, mental health, and wellness benefits.
- 401(k) contributions matched at 100% up to 10%, capped at $10,000, plus an employee stock purchase program.
- Generous paid time off and 14 paid holidays.
- Annual training allowance and employee resource group membership opportunities and events.
- 20 weeks of fully paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and child care resources, plus pet insurance and discounts.
- Company gatherings and events.
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