Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Lose It!

8 Months ago • 3 Years + • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Lose It! is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale services for their top-rated mobile apps. This role will report to the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering and collaborate with product managers and engineers. Responsibilities include improving backend service performance, adding features to mobile products, resolving outages, and ensuring efficient work execution. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, proficiency in Java/Kotlin, SQL, Redis, web servers, message queues, and experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficiency in Java/Kotlin, SQL, Redis, web servers, message queues
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Robust health and wellness benefits
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • Fitness Reimbursement
  • Employee-focused engagement and education programs

Job Details

Description

Everyday Health Group (EHG) is a recognized leader in patient and provider education and services attracting an engaged audience of over 74 million health consumers and over 890,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians. Our mission is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant information, data, and analytics. We empower healthcare providers, consumers and payers with trusted content and services delivered through Everyday Health Group’s world-class brands.

As a division of EHG, Lose It!, 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

Our Culture and Values

We created our values together to guide our collective purpose and pursuits. We are collaborators and problem solvers. We empower one another to make informed decisions and to be enabled towards action. We embrace success. We recognize that innovation can spark and be born from any of us no matter our individual role or background. We encourage open mindedness and sensitivity to each other and our environment. Our personal and professional passions get ignited, nurtured and supported. We value that doing is greater than talking as the most measurable means of impact. Our collective purpose to deliver enlightened audience experiences with trusted brands is what drives the success of our business and our professional satisfaction.

Life at Everyday Health

At Everyday Health Group, a division of Ziff Davis, we work in a culture of collaboration and welcome those who desire to join our growing global community. We believe in careers versus jobs and people versus employees. We seek enthusiastic individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit looking for an environment that rewards your best work.

Everyday Health offers competitive salaries in addition to robust health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, Flexible Spending accounts, 401(k) with company match, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Pregnancy and Parental leave, Family Planning Support via Maven, Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Fitness Reimbursement as well as employee-focused engagement and education programs, including Employee Resource Groups and company-sponsored events. If you’re seeking a dynamic, flexible work environment where you can see the direct impact of your performance, then Everyday Health is the place for you. Everyday Health Group has employees located in 35 states as well as offices in NYC, San Francisco, Fort Lauderdale and Denver. This position may be performed anywhere in the Eastern United States except within the City of New York.

Everyday Health Group 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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