Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Outside Interactive, Inc., the premier hub for active lifestyle enthusiasts, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their MapMyFitness team. In this role, you will build software for fitness tracking applications used by millions and collaborate with engineers, marketing, product, and design teams to enhance user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of backend systems and growth initiatives for the MapMyFitness platform
- Collaborate with marketing, product, and design peers to ship great user experiences
- Respond proactively to bugs and make continuous improvements for the MapMyFitness community
- Assist with monitoring and resolving incidents, ensuring high availability
Skills
- 7+ years experience in backend software development
- Proficient with AI agent coding; Claude Code
- Proficient with Python and Java; experience with Scala is a plus
- Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures
- Comfortable working with RDS/MySQL and Django
- Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/event-driven systems
- Strong communicator in a fully remote environment
- Can clearly explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Able to work independently in situations of ambiguity
- Experience shipping maintainable and testable code bases
- Can build and maintain APIs that power mobile clients
- Contributed to major architectural changes on products used by millions of users
- Passion for fitness, running, cycling, or other endurance activities
- Experience working with legacy systems
- Familiarity with the MapMyFitness apps or active user community
Benefits
- Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission.
- Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, Flexible Time Away, sick leave, and more.
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