Senior Search Engineer

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.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the MyFitnessPal Search Engineering team. Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our Search team within Data Platform, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users with your expertise in the backend systems that drive the MyFitnessPal ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.

While the majority of the work you will do will be in Scala, there will also be work in SQL and Python throughout the stack. We care more about your general engineering skill than your knowledge of a specific language and or framework.

What you’ll be doing: 

• Build and maintain APIs that drive our user's experience, integrating with services and systems across the MyFitnessPal engineering teams

• Assist Data Scientists in development, monitoring, and training of machine learning models

• Assist in evaluation and implementation of Search and Data technologies, to ensure the best possible experience for our users

• Handle search performance tuning including data-design, indexing, evaluation and improvement

• Collaborate closely with senior search engineers, product management, and other technical leaders in discovery and planning of solution creation, experimentation, and delivery

• Support resolution of production issues across the search stack

• Engage in peer code-reviews

• Live our core values in all you do:

  • Be Kind and Care

  • Live Good Health

  • Be Data-Inspired

  • Champion Change

  • Leave it Better than You Found It

  • Make It Happen

Qualifications to be successful in this role: 

• 4+ years of experience or relevant work experience

• Experience in performance tuning, query analysis, defining success criteria and metrics, designing ranking and relevance experiments and optimizing Elasticsearch

• Experience working with industry standard machine learning frameworks (scikit-learn, PyTorch, Dask, Spark, or TensorFlow)

• Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery options for search

• Observed and identified service pain points, priorities, requirements, and success criteria

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP and/or other cloud computing platforms

• Prior experience with Scala, Python, and SQL

• Understanding of best practices in database design, data architecture, and performance tuning

• First-hand experience in building, scaling, and supporting large-scale data infrastructure systems in production

• Experience with a variety of data stores (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis)

• Profiling and performance tuning applications

• Experience with high volume messaging queues such as Kafka

• Familiarity with AWS and/or other cloud computing platforms

Please consider applying even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications. Research shows you can still be considered for a position if you meet some of the requirements. At MyFitnessPal, we’re building a fitness product for everyone and believe our team should reflect that. We encourage people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to apply.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $130,000 - $150,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits, annual performance bonus, a 401(k) plan and match, responsible time off, monthly wellness and technology allowances, and others.