Application Development Manager
Job Category: Manager
Requisition Number: APPLI001953
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Position: Application Development Manager
Location: Baltimore, MD 21202 (Hybrid schedule)
Pay range: $140,000-$150,000
Company: Medifast, Inc.
Job Details:
Description-
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.
Medifast is a company focusing on wellness and lifelong transformation for its customers. Due to the fast business growth, Medifast has an immediate need for a Manager of Application Development to oversee the design, technical implementation, and support of some mission-critical applications at Medifast. The role is expected to lead the teams to support accelerated transformational business growth and strategic technology transitions.
Opportunity Highlights
- Responsible for and overseeing the development of user-centric mission-critical client-facing mobile applications and APIs using modern technologies.
- Work closely with the Digital Product Team to ensure the development team objectives are known and support the larger needs of the business.
- Interact with vendors, and peers to develop and coordinate strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution of development.
- Drive technical excellence, resilience, reliability, and scalability by applying the best practices and well-thought designs.
- Mentor distributed development teams and adopt modern software engineering & delivery practices (DevOps, CI/CD).
- Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Management, Engineering or similar technical field, or equivalent experiences.
- 8+ years of experience in the software development field.
- 3+ years of managing leaders of software engineering teams with a focus on mobile apps.
- strong experiences in developing mobile apps using JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native), Python, API, microservices, and Lambda.
- Sold experiences in cloud technologies on AWS.
- Working knowledge of how to construct and manage cloud development pipelines and using continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Solid understanding and experience in software development lifecycle with Agile methodologies, software architecture, and design.
- The ability to work quickly while balancing many priorities and tight deadlines.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving in a rapidly changing environment.
- strong interpersonal and communication skills.
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 global company behind one of the fastest-growing health and wellness communities, OPTAVIA®, which offers scientifically developed products, clinically proven plans and the support of Coaches and a Community to help Clients achieve Lifelong Transformation, One Healthy Habit at a Time®. Based on nearly 40 years of experience, Medifast has redefined direct selling by combining the best aspects of the model. Its community of thousands of independent OPTAVIA Coaches teach Clients to develop holistic healthy habits through the proprietary Habits of Health® Transformational System. Medifast is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and ranked second on Fortune's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2020 and Forbes' 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America list in 2017. For more information, visit MedifastInc.com or OPTAVIA.com.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about Medifast.
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Software Development background:
-Experience with AWS, Python, Javascript (React, etc.)
-Experience with Agile methodology
-2+ years of leadership over software teams
Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
location: Baltimore, Maryland
job type: Permanent
salary: $140,000 - 150,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Management, Engineering or similar technical field, or equivalent experiences.
- 8+ years of experience in the software development field.
- 3+ years of managing leaders of software engineering teams with a focus on mobile apps.
- experiences in developing mobile apps using JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native), Python, API, microservices, and Lambda.
- Sold experiences in cloud technologies on AWS.
- Working knowledge of how to construct and manage cloud development pipelines and using continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Solid understanding and experience in software development lifecycle with Agile methodologies, software architecture, and design.
- The ability to work quickly while balancing many priorities and tight deadlines.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving in a rapidly changing environment.
- interpersonal and communication skills.
qualifications:
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 8 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors
skills:
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