Manager, Engineering - Partnerships

About MyFitnessPal:

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.

About this Role:

We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join the MyFitnessPal Engineering team to focus on building external partnerships within our mobile ecosystem, enabling our users to expand the ways in which they use MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. You’ll have the opportunity to positively impact our users by leading a cross-functional team of Android, Backend, iOS, and Web engineers helping us create a wellness ecosystem with MyFitnessPal at the center. The team focuses on outcomes over outputs, prioritizing work based on MFP’s product vision and strategy, using data and experimentation.

This Engineering Manager role builds products for our customers and enterprise partners. For our customers, you will create engaging experiences that help them reach their goals. For our enterprise partners, you will build products that enable them to enroll, manage, and incentivize their users to achieve better health and business outcomes. 

Essential Duties:

As the Engineering Manager you are first and foremost responsible for the team and their ability to support the objectives of the product squad, focused on developing and maintaining external partner integrations, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and efficient solutions. You will ensure engineers are working closely with Product and Design in discovery and the work is effectively transitioned through delivery, keeping an eye on the quality and maintainability of codebases.

You will act as a primary technical point of contact for external partners, providing strategic guidance and ensuring successful technical alignment. You will work closely with engineering, product, and design teams to define and deliver technical requirements for these strategic partnerships. You will then drive the design and implementation of APIs, SDKs, and other integration tools to facilitate seamless collaboration with partner technologies. 

As you partner closely with product and design managers, you'll champion our product operating model, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools to discover solutions that are valuable for customers and the business. You will take a hands-on approach to delivery management, ensuring the backlog is healthy, maintenance and tech debt work are scheduled, and work is broken down appropriately, in a timely manner. 

You will run agile sprint ceremonies and coach others to do the same. Everyone on the team should feel engaged in the process and empowered to suggest necessary work and ways to improve. Your success is dependent on the success of your team, and you’re committed to coach and support a team of skilled engineers.

To effectively coach, you must care about each team member individually and aid them in both their personal growth and their ability to work as a team. You will coach engineers using weekly one-on-ones, building trust and delivering feedback with kind candor. You must lead by example, embodying our three engineering values: 

• Build with Others, for Others
• Focus on Impact
• Learn and Iterate

Qualifications to be successful in this role: 

• 6+ years experience leading an engineering team in the Product Operating Model as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead, quickly validating hypotheses through a range of testing tactics
• Experience working with third parties, ie through public-facing API integrations or otherwise
• Experience leading consumer-facing development work focused on native iOS and Android apps using Agile principles and Scrum methodologies
• Strong product sense and ability to identify collaboration opportunities with external partners to drive innovation and enhance product offerings
• A track record of collaborative partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to plan, execute, and deliver projects
• Enjoys helping other teammates grow through mentorship and coaching
• Have an engineering background that includes knowledge of common patterns and software engineering and best practices, as well as experience working with high traffic, scalable mobile applications 
• Have a strong bias to action and proven ability to make decisions quickly using a variety of inputs
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent real-world experience

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 $157,000 - $198,000. 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.