At MyFitnessPal, our vision is to be the global catalyst for every “body” to achieve their healthy. We believe fitness starts with what you eat. We provide the tools and resources to reach your fitness goals.

MyFitnessPal is looking for a Staff Search Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. Our users rely on MyFitnessPal to power their health and fitness journeys every day. As a member of our MyFitnessPal search team, you’ll have the opportunity to positively impact those users with your expertise in the services that drive the MyFitnessPal nutrition logging. 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 and Elasticsearch, we also have Java, Ruby, Go, Node and Python throughout the stack. We value both your knowledge of search and your general engineering skills to support your teammates.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the evaluation and implementation of our search and data technologies to ensure the best possible search experience for users of our applications and APIs
• Handling distributed I/O patterns, search performance tuning including data-design, indexing, evaluation and improvement
• Build and maintain APIs that drive our user’s experience, integrating with services and systems across the MyFitnessPal engineering teams
• Work with our engineering and product teams in support of MyFitnessPal to solve critical user problems using a wide variety of technologies
• Engage in code-reviews as a mentor and peer
• 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:

• Substantial development and administration experience in search technology (Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Apache Solr, and/or Algolia)
• Experience in performance tuning, query analysis, defining success criteria and metrics, designing ranking and relevance experiments and optimizing Elasticsearch
• Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery options for search
• Observed and identified service pain points, priorities, requirements, and success criteria.
• Built high request volume APIs for a multitude of clients, including but not limited to: Mobile, Web, Third-Party integrators
• Exposure to a variety of data stores and search technologies  (e.g. MySQL, RDS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Open Search, Elasticsearch, Neo4j)
• Familiarity with AWS, GCP and/or other cloud computing platforms
• Prior experience with Python, SQL, and/or GraphQL
• Understanding of best practices in database design, data architecture, and performance tuning

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.