Software Engineer - Backend

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 Senior Backend Software Engineer to join a team responsible for building a seamless meal-tracking experience.  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 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 will be in Python driving Machine Learning features, Kotlin is a nice-to-have language associated with some of our other services. Our backend tech stack also includes Ruby, Scala, Java, Node, and Go. We care most about your advanced Python experience, passion for integrating Machine Learning features, ability to learn quickly from real user data, and collaboration with the rest of our full-stack team.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Along with our Data Science team, implementing ML features into our backend systems including features that use natural language processing, computer vision, recommender systems.
• Working collaboratively with cross functional peers to solve the right problems as a team.
• Building relationships with your peers across other teams to understand and prioritize widespread challenges in the MyFitnessPal ecosystem.
• Coach team members to increase the success of the team as a whole.
• Breaking down problems into small deliverable solutions collaboratively.
• Developing and maintaining APIs that drive our users' experience, integrating with services and systems across the MyFitnessPal engineering teams.
• Evaluating and improving existing systems and APIs to provide more robust solutions that allow others to move quickly and efficiently.
• Supporting resolution of production issues across the entire MyFitnessPal stack.
• Living our core values in all you do:
• Be Kind and Care
• Live Good Health
• Be Data-Inspired
• Champion Change
• Leave it Better than You Found It
• Make It Happen

Qualifications to be successful in this role: 

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Have built high request volume APIs for a multitude of clients, including but not limited to: Mobile, Web, Third-Party integrators
• Proficient in modern Python with recent experience developing production-grade backend systems or microservices.
• Supported client teams through migrations efforts involving large-scale API changes
• Experience with a variety of API design patterns, such as REST & GraphQL
• Experience with a variety of data stores (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis)
• Profiling and performance tuning applications
• Experience with high volume messaging queues such as Kafka
• Familiarity with AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms

 Bonus Points:

• Experience collaborating with data science teams to deploy and integrate machine learning models (e.g., recommendation engines, LLMs) into production APIs.
• Exposure to XP, Pair Programming, Mob Programming or other highly collaborative working styles
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or other practices focussed on building self verifying code
• Have contributed code to iOS, Android or Web applications
• Experience re-platforming high volume, high criticality systems

Please consider applying even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. Research shows you can still be considered for a position if you meet some of the requirements. At MyFitnessPal, we’re building a fitness product for everyone and believe our team should reflect that. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $130,000 - 150,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.