Software Engineer III, Backend
Remote - US
At MyFitnessPal, our vision is to be the most trusted brand for improving your health through better food choices. We believe good health starts with what you eat. We provide the tools and resources to reach your weight management goals.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the MyFitnessPal Engineering Initiatives 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:
The Engineering Initiatives Team is an engineering led team focused on improving our ability to extend and maintain our software systems. We strive to improve the quality and reliability of our systems through technical improvements. We operate as a software platform team seeking to understand what parts of our client and server applications prevent us from solving problems for our users.
About the role:
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
- Live our core values in all you do:
- Be Kind and Care
- Live Good Health
- Be Data-Inspired …
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Tasks- Collaborate with peers
- Evaluate and improve systems
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Experience4-6 years
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