Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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

Culture & 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.