About the position
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. Our free, ad-supported app is central to our mission of providing accessible food tracking for all, and the majority of our users choose this option as they begin to live a healthier lifestyle. MyFitnessPal aims to enhance the user experience by incorporating premium ad formats that are not only engaging for users but also provide a significant revenue stream for the platform as our user base expands. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, iOS to join the MyFitnessPal Ads team. Our users rely on the MyFitnessPal Android 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 Android development ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with cross functional peers to solve the right problems as a team
- Build relationships with your peers across other teams to understand and prioritize widespread challenges in the iOS ecosystem
- Build strong cross functional relationships with Android, Web, Backend and Infrastructure peers
- 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
- Turn big ideas into simple, elegant solutions
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Have actively contributed to and published iOS applications
- Mastery of Objective-C and Swift
- Mastery of iOS app building frameworks (UIKit, Foundation, etc)
- Extensive experience writing unit tests and testable code
- Extensive experience refactoring architectural patterns
- Experience with multithreaded programming
- Experience working with a relational database
- Have experience with automating the building and publication of iOS apps
- Take a pragmatic approach to solving problems
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with payments infrastructure or AppStore Connect
- 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
- Experience migrating a large legacy codebase to modern standards
- Experience migrating from Objective-C to Swift
- Experience contributing to Android, Web, or Backend applications
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Parental planning
- Mental health benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- 401(k) plan and match
- Responsible time off
- Monthly wellness and technology allowances
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Volunteer days off
- Mentorship program
- Access to MyFitnessPal Premium
- Virtual learning and development library
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Retirement savings program
