About The Opportunity

At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. 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

Medifast is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the foundation of our digital business a cloud-based platform of high-performing services that can horizontally scale to millions of users. We are looking for candidates who are constant learners, who are self-motivated and motivate their peers, who are positive and pragmatic, who communicate and collaborate, who take responsibility and ownership, and who are driven by the quality and success of the team. If you enjoy designing and building highly distributed systems that can scale and enjoy a fast-paced collaborative environment, join us!

Job Responsibilities

Enable the development teams

Cloud + Container Engineering

Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)

Persistence Engineering - DaaS (Database as a Service), Caching and Storage solutions

Set-up and automation of applications on public IaaS platforms and containers

Onboard new capabilities to the cloud platform in a timely fashion

Support defects and enhancement requests in a timely fashion

Deep Knowledge of operations engineering to innovate and influence operational approach

Engage in PoCs of new DevOps/Platform tooling to support changing requirements

Work collaboratively with all partner teams

Knowledge, Education, Skills & Abilities

Degree in CS, IT, or Engineering

5+ years in DevOps/SRE functions, including strong hands-on experience in:

Python scripting

AWS Cloud Engineering (AWS certification would be a plus)

Infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Ansible, Jenkins or equivalent)

Containerization (Docker), orchestrated using Kubernetes 

Persistence Engineering (SQL and NoSQL databases)

Demonstrable understanding of Microservices, Event-driven, and distributed architecture

Admin-level experience in DVCS systems

API handling experience with Repositories (AWS CodeArtifact, Nexus, Artifactory or similar repositories) 

Demonstrable understanding of DevOps, SRE, and Continuous Delivery

Quick learner with a great can-do attitude, open to on and off-site training

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.

We Lead By…

Mastering Relationships: We build trust, promote collaboration and we are reliable.

Being innovative: We strive to improve things in our areas of influence; test, refine and expand within the business strategy; and reach beyond real and perceived boundaries.

Simplifying: We are committed to making things measurable, repeatable and scalable; focusing on outcomes not activities; and eliminating complexity to increase focus.

Anticipating: We predict long-term business and organizational needs; challenge assumptions; and expect and prepare for the unexpected.

More About Medifast

Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the health and wellness company known for its habit-based and coach-guided lifestyle solution OPTAVIA®, which provides people with a simple, yet comprehensive approach to help them achieve lasting optimal health and wellbeing. OPTAVIA's lifestyle plans deliver clinically proven health benefits as well as evidence-based tools, including scientifically developed products and a framework for habit creation reinforced by independent Coaches and Community support. As a physician-founded company with a 40+ year history, Medifast is a leader in the U.S. weight management industry. Through a collaboration with the national virtual primary care provider LifeMD, OPTAVIA customers have access to board-certified affiliated clinicians and medications, such as GLP-1s, that support treatment plans for obesity and other health conditions. The company continues to innovate and build upon its scientific and clinical heritage to fulfill its mission of offering the world Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. Medifast was recognized in 2023 by Financial Times as one of The Americas' Fastest Growing Companies and in 2022 as one of America's Best Mid-Sized Companies by Forbes. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com and OPTAVIA.com and follow @Medifast on X.

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