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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.