Software Engineer II, Backend Engineering

At MyFitnessPal, we believe health starts with what you eat. We provide tools, resources and support to enable users to reach their health goals. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the MyFitnessPal Backend Engineering team. Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our MyFitnessPal Engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users with your expertise in the backend systems that drive the MyFitnessPal ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.

About the team:

Our longstanding mission is to elevate user engagement within our app by fostering a supportive and motivating environment. We aim to inspire users to set and achieve their personal goals, driving continuous progress and creating a more enriching and fulfilling user experience. Through innovation and a deep understanding of our users' needs, we are committed to empowering every individual on their journey towards success.

About the role:

This role is considered our “intermediate” level Software Engineer. individuals in this role are trusted to break down abstract problems and implement solutions. Often this role will lead larger efforts with the appropriate collaboration with peers and superiors. This role spends the bulk of their time contributing code and ideas to solve complex technical problems.

While the majority of the work you will do will be in Kotlin, we also have Scala, Ruby, Java, Go, Node and Python throughout the stack. We care more about your general engineering skill than your knowledge of a specific language and or framework.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working collaboratively with cross functional peers to solve the right problems as a team
• Build relationships with your peers across other teams to understand and prioritize widespread challenges in the MyFitnessPal ecosystem
• Break down problems into small deliverable solutions collaboratively
• Develop and maintain APIs that drive our user's experience, integrating with services and systems across the MyFitnessPal engineering teams
• Evaluate and improve existing systems and APIs to provide more robust solutions that allow others to move quickly and efficiently
• Support resolution of production issues across the entire MyFitnessPal stack.

Qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Have built high request volume APIs for a multitude of clients, including but not limited to: Mobile, …