Match Group
Software Engineer II, iOS
Palo Alto, California · Mid · Full-time
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About the role
- Recs Experience turns Tinder's recommendation systems into flexible, reliable, and easy-to-use product capabilities that power better experiences across the app.
- You'll grow your iOS and recommendations-domain expertise while helping a collaborative, full-stack team improve discovery for millions of members worldwide.
- This is a hybrid role based in Palo Alto, California, and requires in-office collaboration three times per week.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture, design, and implementation of consumer-facing recommendation features in the Tinder iOS app.
- Approximately 2+ years of professional experience building and shipping production, consumer-facing applications with native iOS technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience with UIKit, Objective-C, or Combine in an existing production codebase.
- Familiarity with modular iOS architectures or dependency-injection approaches, including MDI, MDUI, Nodes, or Needle.
- Experience with Bazel, Swift Package Manager, XCUITest, CI/CD pipelines, or mobile monitoring tools.
- Experience with experimentation platforms, product analytics, design systems, or feature-flagged releases.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and responsible practices for validating generated or unfamiliar code and protecting sensitive information.
- A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline is welcome but not required
- demonstrated proficiency in modern iOS technologies and principles matters most.
- As a full-time employee, you'll enjoy:
Compensation
- Time off to volunteer and charitable donations matched up to $15,000 annually
Benefits
- Just as users don't leave their matches hanging, we don't let each other down.
Company info
- As humans, there are few things more exciting than meeting someone new.
- At Tinder, we're inspired by the challenge of keeping the magic of human connection alive.
- With tens of millions of users, hundreds of millions of downloads, 2+ billion swipes per day, 20+ million matches per day, and a presence in 190+ countries, our reach is expansive-and rapidly growing.
- We work together to solve complex problems.
- Behind the simplicity of every match, we think deeply about human relationships, behavioral science, network economics, AI and ML, online and real-world safety, cultural nuances, loneliness, love, sex, and more.
- Take the Lead: We don't ghost our work or each other. Just as users don't leave their matches hanging, we don't let each other down.
- Move Fast: We have a bias for action and urgency. Something that could be done tomorrow would be better if done today.
- Better Together: We keep connection at the heart of dating and at the heart of how we work. Just as our users are better when they connect with others, so are we when we collaborate.
- Real Talk: We say the hard thing the human way. Just as we ask our users to behave with kindness and candor in our community, we expect Team Tinder to do the same.
- Safety First: We act with integrity, transparency, and consistency so people feel safe-whether they're swiping, matching, or working alongside us.
- Spark Fun: We have fun to unlock creativity, fuel innovation, and help us build better experiences for daters.
- The Team or Role
- We simplify the complexity of recommendations so teams can build with them confidently, while helping members find more relevant connections faster through clearer, more personalized, and more responsive experiences.
This listing is sourced directly from Match Group's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.