Who we are 
Retrofit’s vision is to transform lives, workplaces and communities by improving health, happiness and performance. Our mission is to deliver the most personalized, effective and sustainable weight-management and disease-prevention solutions. Retrofit uses live expert coaches, a smart dashboard for tracking and notifications, interactive classes, social support from an online community and a variety of self-monitoring technologies to deliver engagement, industry-leading outcomes and lasting results.

Who you are

You are passionate about building solutions that have a positive impact on the health outcomes and happiness of individuals. You have a proven track record of delivering high quality custom code on time that results is an engaging and delightful experience. You like to get things done, be challenged with tough problems, work with smart people and have fun in the process.

The ideal candidate demonstrates the following core competencies:

• You have solid computer science fundamentals.
• You understand code and the value of unit tests.
• You are a results driven individual.
• You thrive in a fast paced iterative development environment.
• You are a creative problem-solver and pay attention to detail.
• You love to learn and challenge yourself to learn new technologies.
• You work collaboratively in teams.
• You are self discipline and able to work remotely and independently.

The role in a nutshell

As a Senior Development Engineer at Retrofit you’ll work in an agile, collaborative environment to understand requirements, code and test innovative web and mobile applications, and support those applications for our highly valued customers.  Your work will primarily be focused on backend development and you also may be provided opportunities to get involved in supporting other new and existing applications or technologies.

What you'll do

• Research, design, prototype, develop, and maintain software/systems
• Research and apply new technologies to solve business problems
• Participate in multi-disciplinary projects
• Contribute to technology platforms, tools, and processes
• Troubleshoot issues, verify bugs, implement problem resolutions
• Provide technical/engineering support for new and existing applications
• Provide reasonable task and project effort estimates
• Ensure timely, effective, and quality delivery of software into production
• Develop and test applications based on requirements and best practices
• Create and maintain required technical documentation
• Adhere to documented departmental and company standards
• Periodically troubleshooting during off-hours for system failures
• Collaboratively work with QA team to ensure delivery of high-quality products
• Collaboratively work with Retrofit client happiness team to resolve or diagnose defects

What you'll need

• 2+ years development experience building consumer web and mobile applications
• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• Excellent technical and communication skills
• Java, Scala
• IntelliJ & Git
• NoSQL DB (Mongo)
• Some Javascript preferred
• Knowledge of REST services
• Mainstream authentication methods
• 3rd party API Integration experience
• Intellectual curiosity, positive attitude and a desire to influence the products being built

Impress us even more

• HTML5 & CSS
• iOS & iOS SDK
• Android & Android SDK
• Swift, Objective-C, XCode
• Phonegap/Cordova
• ReactJS and/or Node.js
• Devops & AWS
• Test Automation
• Continuous Integration
• Mac & Linux
• Postgres DB
• JQuery and/or Backbone.js
• Atlassian suite
• Github
• Jetty (dev) and Tomcat
• Test driven development

This position is open to remote, part-time and contractor candidates.