Software Engineer III, iOS - Ads

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 Software Engineer III, iOS to join the MyFitnessPal Ads team. Our users rely on the MyFitnessPal iOS 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 iOS development ecosystem. In addition to technical expertise, you’ll find that your teammates value collaboration, mentorship, and inclusive environments.

About the Team:

Our brand-new Ads team is dually focused on improving the existing Ads experience while exploring novel formats for advertising throughout the user journey. If you’re excited about driving meaningful business growth while delivering a delightful experience to our end users, we want you on our team!

What you’ll be doing: 

• Work closely with our creative design and user interface team to implement native mobile interfaces according to the iOS Human Interface Guidelines

• Continually improve the user experience by analyzing and optimizing UI, data storage, and network communications

• Independently build and deliver high quality features and improvements

• 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

• Work closely with your cross-functional product engineering team to solve problems

• Turn big ideas into simple, elegant solutions

• 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 relevant work experience

• Applicable experience building applications in Objective-C and Swift for the iOS platform within an Agile environment

• Experience writing unit tests and testable code

• Experience with multithreaded programming

• Comfort working with RESTful APIs

• Substantial experience with Git in a team environment

• Experience working with a relational database

• Past usage of at least one package manager

• Some experience with CI/CD

• Enjoy working in a collaborative team environment

• Excellent communication skills

• Excited about the opportunity to mentor junior developers

• Demonstrate kindness and empathy

Bonus Points:

• Experience migrating a large legacy codebase to modern standards

• Experience using a functional reactive programming framework (RxSwift, Combine, etc)

• Experience using SwiftUI

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 $135,000 - $160,000. 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.