Founding Full Stack Engineer, AI Incubation at Match Group
Los Angeles, CA
$300,000–$325,000
Jul 19, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding full-stack engineering role inside an AI-focused incubation team at a major dating platform portfolio company. The engineer will own the technical direction end-to-end — building frontend, backend, infrastructure, and AI-powered systems from scratch — with the goal of prototyping and piloting new dating experiences driven by AI. Suited to a senior, highly autonomous engineer comfortable with early-stage, zero-to-one product development.
Staff level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 40 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 10–60
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting explicitly frames this as a 'Staff/Principal-level' role in the body text, though the title says 'Founding Full Stack Engineer'. Seniority is assessed as Staff: the role sets org-wide technical direction for an internal incubation unit and serves as a strategic technical thought partner to Match Group leadership, which is cross-team scope — but it stops short of the org-wide authority of a true Principal/Distinguished/Fellow designation.
Location is inferred as New York (Match Group HQ) based on the hybrid 3-days/week IRL requirement and the company's primary US office; no specific city is stated in the posting.
Mobile development experience (React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter) is listed in the requirements section as 'Experience with mobile development using React Native, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, or similar technologies' — these are treated as interchangeable alternatives for a single hard-gate requirement.
AI-powered product development and working with 'frontier AI tools / modern AI development workflows' are stated as required in the qualifications section; specific AI frameworks or platforms are not named, so no named tool alternatives can be listed.
The 'Nice to have' section covers experience in dating/social/consumer verticals, AI-native consumer products, recommendation/ranking/personalization systems, and founder/zero-to-one experience — all marked preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): full-stack development, AI-powered product development.
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