[Hiring] Engineering Manager @MyFitnessPal

Role Description

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional team of Android, Backend, iOS, and Web engineers to drive foundational engineering work that enables product teams and internal teams to deliver exceptional customer value.

About the Team:

• Product Platform is composed of some of our most senior engineers, passionate about solving complex problems and building high-impact engineering solutions.
• The team is responsible for critical systems that power the broader organization, including:
  • Modernizing data synchronization and persistence between our mobile clients and backend.
  • Improving the mobile developer experience.
  • Building AI-driven tooling to accelerate code modernization.
• This role offers the opportunity to immediately shape and deliver technical solutions that unlock significant business and product opportunities across multiple teams.

Essential Duties:

• Lead a talented team in defining and delivering against quarterly objectives that increase velocity, safety, and effectiveness across product engineering teams.
• Cultivate an environment where engineers thrive in identifying, justifying, and creating solutions that drive meaningful product value.

What you’ll be doing:

• Build strong relationships and regularly converse with Engineering and Product leaders across teams to proactively identify collaboration and platform opportunities.
• Balance product platform delivery with foundational improvements to core services and mobile clients, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term sustainability.
• Take a hands-on approach to delivery management, maintaining a healthy backlog, prioritizing technical debt and maintenance work, and ensuring predictable execution.
• Own and elevate engineering quality standards by championing testing practices, fostering continuous improvement, and strengthening delivery rigor.
• Coach and develop engineers through mentorship, performance management, and career growth support, while maintaining strong team health and engagement.

Qualifications

• Meaningful experience managing platform or foundational engineering work in close partnership with Product and cross-functional stakeholders. Successful candidates have typically spent 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience leading high-performing engineers through discovery and delivery of large-scale engineering initiatives.
• Proven track record of delivering internal platform work across single and multi-platform environments.
• Demonstrated success developing engineers through coaching, mentorship, and performance leadership.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices and architectural patterns, particularly within high-traffic mobile ecosystems.
• Experience building systems designed for scale, reliability, and experimentation.

Requirements

• Values you’ll model:
  • Be Kind and Care — build with empathy; assume positive intent; support teammates and members.
  • Live Good Health — champion healthy habits and balance in how we work and what we ship.
  • Be Data-Inspired — ground decisions in research and data; measure what matters.
  • Champion Change — lean into ambiguity; iterate, learn, and improve continuously.
  • Leave it Better than You Found It — raise quality, clarify systems, and document as you go.
  • Make It Happen — bias to action; deliver impact with craft and accountability.

Benefits

• The reasonably estimated salary for this role at MyFitnessPal ranges from $170,000 - $190,000. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.
• MyFitnessPal offers a wide range of comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including:
  • Healthcare, parental planning, mental health benefits.
  • Annual performance bonus.
  • 401(k) plan and match.
  • Responsible time off.
  • Monthly wellness and technology allowances.
  • Others.
• Exciting Full-Time Employee Benefits, Perks and Culture:
  • Face-to-Face Connections: Opportunities to meet and connect with your team members in person.
  • Flexibility At Its Best: Flexible time-off policy with Responsible Time Off benefit.
  • Give Back: Volunteer days off to support your community.
  • Mentorship Program: Matched with a teammate to help scale your skills.
  • Family-Friendly Support: Paid maternity and paternity leave.
  • Wellness Comes First: Monthly Wellness Allowance for physical and mental well-being.
  • Celebrate Greatness: Reward and recognition platform for exceptional contributions.
  • Elevate Your Health & Fitness: Access to MyFitnessPal Premium.
  • Unlock Your Potential: Access to virtual learning and development library.
  • Championing Inclusion: Dedicated DEI Committee fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
  • Healthcare Matters: Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Secure Your Future: Retirement savings program with competitive employer match.