Be part of a small but rapidly growing, tier 1 VC-backed startup, and work on the app all of your friends are using.
Hinge is looking for Android engineers to join our team in NYC and work on improving and growing the Hinge Android app. As a key member of the Android team, you have the opportunity of having a huge impact on the Hinge app, by building new features and functionality, improving user experience and performance, and working to make Hinge a household name, worldwide. You can be proud of building an app which has a huge impact on the lives of our users.
You should be an expert in (and have dreams about):
- Android application architecture and design
- writing and shipping quality, testable code
- building adaptive, responsive, accessible, stable user interfaces
- working with evolving APIs
- application performance and tuning (memory, CPU, battery life)
- client/server architectures, syncing and caching approaches
- concurrency, asynchronous & multithreading patterns
- working in teams with shared codebases
- delighting users
You should know about (and get excited about):
- working in a dynamic team alongside API engineers and Product Managers
- debugging, testing, profiling
- the good parts of Agile
- SQLite, Layer, Crittercism, UrbanAirship, Mixpanel
- Retrofit, Robospice, Picasso, ORM strategies, OkHttp, Jackson/GSON
- similarities and differences with iOS development
- the changing landscape of Android development (Material Design, CardView, etc)
This is a full-time position in NYC. The compensation package includes benefits and equity.
About the team
Our team features a mix of experienced engineers and innovative hackers from successful startups and places like Google, Amazon, Spotify, Etsy, Meetup, Adobe, LivingSocial, ThredUp, Bonobos, and Shutterstock. We value rigor, humility, positive attitude, trustworthiness, and investment in our company and mission.
Product
Hinge was founded with the belief that technology should enhance the real world, not replace it. We’ve created a dating experience that mirrors meeting through friends – but is much smarter and more effective. We do this by intelligently curating potential matches from your extended friend network, creating a transparent environment where you can see school, workplace and other details that matter, then when there’s a mutual match, helping move the conversation offline. Essentially, we’re creating “Facebook for dating” – the go-to place to find people that you’d actually want to date and be in a relationship with.
Why us?
Work that matters
Hinge is on a mission to create meaningful relationships, in the real world. Joining Hinge means you’ll work on a product that impacts the most important part of people’s lives.
Shape the future of how couples meet
We’re not building a swiping video game. At Hinge, we believe in keeping things real. That’s why when it comes to finding relationships, we help people meet the old-fashioned way: through their real life friends.
Build something big
Hinge creates 40,000 dates per week, and hundreds of new relationships each day. We’re live in 38 cities and 5 countries and have grown 5x in the past year, and are backed by $20M+ from top-tier VCs.
But we’re thinking even bigger. Dating is a $5B industry growing at 15% per year. You should join us to help build the go-to app for finding relationships globally, to become a household name, and to change the love lives of millions of people around the world.
Get in early
You’ll join a small (25 person) team, make a big impact and help shape the future of Hinge. You’ll receive equity and a competitive salary. And when we say equity, we don’t mean <0.1%. Because we want the best people.
Surround yourself with A-players
We have an A-team from companies like Spotify, Meetup, Google, Etsy, LivingSocial, TechStars, Bonobos, ThredUP, and more. Meet the team and learn more about our values: http://team.hinge.co
We have an amazing comfortable dog-friendly office in Flatiron in NYC. Our work style is consensus-driven, non-reactive, flat, focused, and relaxed. Full health, dental, and vision, plus a “take what you need” vacation and work-from-home policy. We have catered lunches, happy hours and adventurous field trips.