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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 Software Engineer, iOS to join the brand-new MyFitnessPal Partnerships team, helping build tools that create win-win-win situations for our users, our company, and partner companies. Our users rely on the MyFitnessPal iOS app 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 iOS development ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.
This is a fully U.S. Remote position.
About the Team:We are looking for an iOS Engineer to join the brand-new MyFitnessPal Partnerships team, helping build tools that create win-win-win situations for our users, our company, and partner companies. Our users rely on the MyFitnessPal iOS app 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 iOS development ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.
What you’ll be doing:We are a fullstack product engineering squad driven to evolve the Search & Logging user experiences to empower users to capture consistent and quality food data to inform and advance health progress and MFP recommendations. If you’re excited about driving meaningful business growth while delivering a delightful experience to our end users, we want you on our team!
What you’ll be doing:
- Building out innovative integrations with third parties (think: personal trainers, wearables, etc) to ensure that the MyFitnessPal app can support our users on their holistic fitness journey.
- Work closely with our creative design and user interface team to implement native mobile interfaces according to the iOS Human Interface Guidelines
- Continually improve the user experience by analyzing and optimizing UI, data storage, and network communications
- Independently build and deliver high quality features and improvements
- Research and implement high-quality technical solutions to attain business goals that will benefit our continually growing user base
- Provide thought leadership on industry best practices around design, testing, security, and deployment
- Coach team members to increase the success of the team as a whole
- Work closely with your cross-functional product engineering team to solve problems
- Turn big ideas into simple, elegant solutions
- Live 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
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- Applicable experience building applications in Objective-C and Swift for the iOS platform within an Agile environment
- Experience writing unit tests and testable code
- Experience with multithreaded programming
- Comfort working with RESTful APIs
- Substantial experience with Git in a team environment
- Experience working with a relational database
- Past usage of at least one package manager
- Some experience with CI/CD
- Enjoy working in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Excited about the opportunity to mentor junior developers
- Demonstrate kindness and empathy
Bonus Points:
- Experience migrating a large legacy codebase to modern standards
- Experience using a functional reactive programming framework (RxSwift, Combine, etc)
- Experience using SwiftUI
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 $135,000 - $160,000. 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.
Face-to-Face Connections: We value personal connections. Enjoy opportunities to meet and connect with your team members in person to help forge meaningful relationships that extend beyond the virtual realm. Teams meet as often as needed and all of MyFitnessPal gathers annually.
Flexibility At Its Best: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve. Enjoy a flexible time-off policy with our Responsible Time Off benefit.
Give Back: Use your volunteer days off to support what matters most to you. Each full time teammate receives 2 days per calendar year to give back to their community through service.
Mentorship Program: Take control of your career through our mentorship program where, if you’d like, you will be matched with a teammate who can help you scale your skills and propel your growth.
Family-Friendly Support: Embrace the journey with confidence and care. Enjoy our paid maternity and paternity leave, to provide time to balance family responsibilities with your career and take the time needed to strengthen family relationships. We understand the complexities of starting or expanding a family, which is why we provide best-in-class comprehensive assistance for fertility-related matters.
Wellness Comes First: Live Good Health is one of our core values. Receive a monthly Wellness Allowance, empowering you to focus on your physical and mental well-being by choosing from a range of wellness initiatives, including dedicated mental health days.
Celebrate Greatness: Your hard work deserves recognition! Our reward and recognition platform empowers peers to acknowledge and reward each other for the exceptional contributions they make.
Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Get access to MyFitnessPal Premium, allowing you to take your fitness, health and wellness journey to new heights.
Unlock Your Potential: Access our virtual learning and development library, and participate in training opportunities to continuously grow and enhance your skills.
Championing Inclusion: Our dedicated DEI Committee actively fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace by setting actionable goals and evaluating progress across the organization.
Healthcare Matters: Your well-being is our priority. Take advantage of our competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits that cater to your holistic healthcare needs. Feel secure and supported on your wellness journey.
Secure Your Future: Benefit from our retirement savings program, giving you peace of mind for your financial goals. Reach them sooner with MyFitnessPal’s competitive employer match.
At MyFitnessPal, our mission is to enable people to make healthy choices. And it wouldn't be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, or disability. These are our guiding ideologies and apply across all aspects of employment.
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