MyFitnessPal is a company that provides tools and resources to help users achieve their health goals. They are seeking a Sr. Manager, Engineering to lead a cross-functional team of engineers in enhancing the app's user engagement and scaling the nutrition logging infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with Product and Design to deliver high-impact features and experiments that enhance the nutrition tracking experience
- Balance feature delivery with infrastructure improvements for our core nutrition and exercise logging systems, ensuring scalability and reliability for our growing user base
- Take a hands-on approach to delivery management, ensuring the backlog is healthy, maintenance and tech debt work are scheduled, and planned work is shipped at a predictable and timely pace
- Own quality of work on the team – champion testing practices, drive continuous reflection, and improve delivery standards
- Coach and develop your team, investing in individuals while keeping team health top-of-mind
Requirements:
- Significant experience leading engineering teams in close partnership with Product and Design, working iteratively with a deep focus on customer outcomes. Successful candidates have typically spent 5+ years in a leadership role
- Strong analytical focus and comfort working through tricky A/B testing and data attribution challenges, ideally in mobile apps
- Track record of leading consumer-facing development work focused on native iOS and Android apps using Agile principles and Scrum methodologies
- Experience developing teams through mentorship and coaching
- Knowledge of common patterns and software engineering and best practices: you've worked with high-traffic mobile applications and know how to build for scale