Founding Full Stack Engineer, AI Incubation

We're looking for a Founding Full Stack Engineer, AI Incubation to be the technical owner for this initiative.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for a Staff/Principal-level engineering leader who can build quickly, make strong technical decisions, and help turn an early product thesis into a working product.

You'll work directly on the core experiences users rely on to discover, evaluate, and build meaningful connections. You'll identify where today's dating experiences create friction, ambiguity, or low-quality outcomes, and rethink how AI can help create a more useful, trusted, and personalized experience.

You should be excited by zero-to-one product building: taking an ambiguous opportunity, defining the fastest path to learning, building the first version, putting it in front of users, and iterating based on real behavior.

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Build end-to-end product experiences that span frontend applications, backend services, agent workflows, cloud infrastructure, integrations, and internal tooling.

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Design AI-powered systems that help the product understand user intent, reason about compatibility, personalize recommendations, and improve through feedback over time.

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Partner closely with product, design, and research to rapidly translate insights into prototypes, pilots, and production-ready features.

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Use frontier AI tools and modern engineering workflows to compress the path from idea to working product, while maintaining strong technical judgment around reliability, privacy, and scale.

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Instrument the product with analytics, event tracking, dashboards, and experimentation tools so the team can evaluate engagement, retention, quality, and product-market signal.

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Improve the reliability, observability, scalability, and performance of the systems and workflows you build.

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Define the early system architecture and technical roadmap, and serve as a strategic technical thought partner to Match Group leadership.

$ 300000- $325000 a year

Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered.

This salary range is reflective of Los Angeles, California. For all other locations, this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

- 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 all of us 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.

Why Match Group?

Our mission is simple - to help people find love and happiness! We love our employees too and understand the importance of all life's milestones. Here are some of the benefits we are proud to offer:

Mind & Body - Medical, mental health, and wellness benefits to support your overall health and well-being

Financial Wellness - Competitive compensation, 100% employer match on 401k contributions up to 10% (cap at $10,000), as well as an employee stock purchase program to help you feel supported in your financial security

Unplug - Generous PTO and 14 paid holidays so you can unplug

Career - Annual training allowance for professional development and ERG membership opportunities and events so you feel connected and empowered in your work

Family - Families come in all shapes and sizes so we offer 20 weeks of 100% paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and child care resources, as well as pet insurance and discounts

Company Gatherings - We host company events where our employees get to know each other and build a sense of connection and belonging!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we value the rich dynamics that diversity brings to our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy and sexual harassment), gender identity or expression, uniformed service or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Period.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process - such as during pre-employment testing or interviews - please indicate this by selecting "Yes" in the accommodation request field. We'll reach out to discuss your needs if you're selected for the interview stage.

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