Fitfyles LLP

Backend Engineer

FiFyles is changing lives!

As a Backend Engineer with unique problem-solving capabilities, a deep passion for quality, and the talent to craft amazing, elegant, purposeful code in a variety of languages, we’re the kind of person we’re looking for. We hope you’ll apply to FitFyles!

Who You Are

• You craft simple and elegant solutions to the gnarliest problems
• You break through conventional thinking and dare to dream
• You sometimes laugh at your own jokes
• Your solutions are creative—and sometimes a little odd—but you always solve the puzzle in front of you
• You iterate until they pull the keyboard out of your hands
• You know there are many ways to solve a problem and carefully weigh each trade-off and execute decisively
• You despise bobbleheads
• On Sunday mornings you’re usually hung over from the previous night’s hackathon
• You are not a prima donna and understand that it takes a village to unleash innovation
• You swear that next year is the year you’ll make it to Comic-Con
• You question assumptions
• You are a math god
• You believe in practicing your art
• You’ve not yet been won over by the new Doctor
• You are a student of lifetime learning

What you want from your next career move

To change the world, one line of code at a time. To be challenged and to learn. To make a real difference in people’s lives.

Why we need you

FitFyles is a company that saves lives. A company that is going to change the face of health care for good. We need superlative coders who can realize our vision on a cross-platform development framework (iPhone, iPad, Android, and all browsers) and who are passionate about big data, advanced ontologies, cutting-edge algorithms, reputation scores, localization, and personalization.

As a backend engineer at FitFyles, you’ll be part of a tight knit team, flourishing in an  engineering- and product- centric culture.

We need you to:

• Help shape and define the architecture of, and build the core infrastructure for, our products used by millions
• Help solve huge problems working with big data, machine learning, NLP, advanced search, and the next generation of APIs to change and disrupt the health care and health information industries  
• Create elegant code that’s efficient, reusable, and easy to maintain (and that actually saves lives)
• Translate user needs that really matter into product requirements and ultimate solutions that surprise, delight, and make a difference in people’s lives
• Play an important role in helping FitFyles stay at the forefront of digital health, one of the hottest emerging industries

How you’re going to change global health care

Your code will make it possible for people to live longer, healthier, happier lives, and will bring concierge medicine and peace of mind to millions of people around the world.

What you’ve accomplished

• BS / MS in Computer Science from a top school or program (or equivalent experience)
• Highly exceptional coding skills in multiple programming languages
• Extensive experience building awesome, user-friendly, web-based applications using Scala, Erlang, Haskell, PlayFramework, Spray, Akka, MLib and R
• Proven ability to contribute and to “move the needle” in all aspects of a quality-centric, web and mobile-based application development environment (including database design, algorithms, front-end coding, and engineering operations)
• Startup or similar experience (preferred) and the drive to live the dream (required)