Senior Software Engineer, Backend

1 Year ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Lose It! is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale services for its mobile apps. This role involves working with product managers and engineers to create efficient, durable, and well-architected experiences. Key responsibilities include improving backend service performance, supporting front-end engineers, responding to outages, resolving issues, and ensuring proper work scoping. The position requires at least 3 years of experience as a software engineer and proficiency in coding and debugging in technologies such as Java/Kotlin, SQL, Redis, web servers, and message queues. The engineer will also be expected to support teammates and be highly influential within the Infrastructure team. The work location will be in the Eastern United States, excluding New York City.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Comfortable coding and debugging in most of the stack
  • Experience with running workloads in a cloud provider
  • Executes tactical efforts autonomously
  • High productivity; writes a lot of code
  • Very responsive; quickly adapts to code feedback
  • Supports teammates; makes the developers around them better
  • Highly influential within the Infrastructure team
  • A positive attitude and the ability to resolve issues

Job Details

Lose It!, a division of Everyday Health Group, available on iOS and Android, has helped our members lose over 100 million pounds. Our product-first strategy has resulted in more than 1 million monthly active users that we’re able to help live healthier lives.

The Opportunity

Lose It! is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale services that power our top-rated mobile apps. This role will report to the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, and work directly with product managers and fellow engineers to deliver efficient, durable, and well-architected experiences to our members. Come join an exciting environment where you can contribute to a product that helps millions of users live healthier lives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Improve the performance of the backend services that power our mobile application and make them more maintainable and scalable
  • Support front-end engineers in adding new features to mobile products
  • Respond to outages and determine root causes in order to prevent future ones
  • Resolve issues with support of teammates as part of an on-call rotation for production systems
  • Ensure work is scoped properly and is being executed the best way possible

Job Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Comfortable coding and debugging in most of the stack - Java/Kotlin (or similar language), SQL, Redis, web servers, message queues
  • Experience with running workloads in a cloud provider - for instance Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc
  • Executes tactical efforts autonomously
  • High productivity; writes a lot of code
  • Very responsive; quickly adapts to code feedback
  • Supports teammates; makes the developers around them better
  • Highly influential within the Infrastructure team and across the company
  • A positive attitude and the ability to resolve issues with best practices, processes, and strategies

Why Work at Lose It!

  • Do you want to help people lose weight and live healthier lives? When our members succeed, we succeed.
  • Are you looking to join a small, inclusive team that uses problem-solving and creativity to get things done? We take pride in what we do and how we deliver.
  • Do you want to see the fruits of your labor? Everyone takes responsibility for the overall success of the company.
  • Have questions? We may not always have the answers, but we will be honest in our response.

Compelling markets and technology: Lose It! is at the forefront of health and fitness, corporate wellness, machine learning, nutrigenomics and mobile and cloud computing.

Our legacy of success: Our members have lost over 100 million pounds, but it didn't happen overnight and without hard work. Our founders were seasoned startup professionals; they'd taken a company public, sold companies to Macromedia and Microsoft, and raised capital from firms ranging from General Catalyst to Polaris to United Healthcare's Innovation Group. Now we enjoy the energy of a start-up culture but with the stability that comes from being acquired by a publicly traded company. When our members succeed, we succeed. Come share in our success!

Small team, deep and interesting challenges: We may be a small team (under 50 people total), but we're always pushing each other to be better at what we do. Sometimes that means wearing different hats and learning new skills to get things done.

Professional growth opportunities: We encourage continuous learning through sponsoring employees to attend conferences and seminars to network, expand their knowledge and build their skillset. We also incorporate team building exercises to optimize how we work together as a team.

Professional development opportunities: We are always learning. Whether it's together in our work, attending conferences, training or networking with others, we bring back knowledge and share what we've learned with our team.

This position may be performed anywhere in the Eastern United States except within the City of New York.

Lose It! is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and equitable environment for all employees.

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