Sr. Software Engineer

at  MEDIFAST INC

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature™. When you join Medifast, you become part of a dynamic, fast-growing community of highly motivated, like-hearted people who share a passion for promoting health and wellness. Just as OPTAVIA Coaches inspire Clients to reach their personal wellness goals, at Medifast, we inspire each other to bring our best to work each day to further our shared mission. If you want to build a rewarding career that makes lives better on a daily basis, Medifast may be the perfect place for you.

OVERVIEW OF POSITION

We are looking for a Sr. Software Engineer who is passionate on new technologies, driving best practices, and mentoring fellow Engineers. The primary focus will be on establishing standards & best practices, mentoring, driving cross-team code reviews, supporting the other Engineers on their individual projects across the portfolio, research and draft architecture solutions to present to architecture council. This role is 80% “heads down” and 20% cross team collaboration.

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s in CS, IT or Engineering
• 7-10 years of experience in core back-end technologies.
• 3+ years of AWS Lambda and NodeJS, to include thorough understanding of AWS Lambda and its core principles and hands on experience
• 3+ years of AWS Redshift and Neo4J database
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and the JavaScript object model
• Developing new AWS lambda services
• Building reusable components and libraries
• Translating designs into high quality code
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design
• Familiarity with modern build pipelines and tools
• Experience with unit testing with Jest.
• CI/CD knowledge. High level understanding of Jenkins Pipelines.
• Experience with common development tools such as NPM etc.
• Experience working in an agile development environment(Agile, Scrum or Kanban preferred)
• Experience in mentorship, leading code reviews, and setting/following coding standards.
• Familiarity with AWS Glue
• Familiarity with Confluent Kafka

AT MEDIFAST, RELATIONSHIPS ARE AT THE CENTER OF WHAT WE DO!

We thrive by elevating our connections with one another as well as with our Coaches & Clients. We believe that everyone has the potential to be OUTSTANDING. The Medifast culture is built on seven core values: integrity, courage, teaming, accountability, empowerment, partnership and diversity. These values aren’t just words on a page – they are celebrated as a core part of the company’s philosophy.

• Design, define, and hold team(s) accountable to best practices and standards.
• Implement and work with teams on pair programming and code review standards.
• Collaborate across teams and technologies to drive solutions.
• Work closely with the Delivery Managers and Group Product Managers to understand use cases and user needs to support engineering solutions.
• Drive and hold team(s) accountable for continued technology growth.
• Produce technical design documentation.
• Mentor engineers and lead code reviews.
• Accountable for leadership and engineering solutioning.