Lead Java Software Engineer

Job Description

At Fitbit, our mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals.

We started our journey in 2007—as a team of two with one big idea. Since then, we’ve grown to over 1,700 employees, sold over 90mm devices, and built a health and wellness community across the globe. In fact, the Fitbit Community has taken enough steps to walk from the Sun to Pluto and back again! Offering award-winning products, a top-rated mobile app and an easy-to-use dashboard, Fitbit provides personalized experiences that help our users reach their goals. With a reenergized focus on innovative devices, interactive experiences, and enterprise health we are transforming the way consumers and businesses see health & fitness.

From your first steps as a Fitbitter, you will be at the forefront of developing new products. Our culture combines the spirit of startup with the perks of being public. We offer a competitive benefits package and amazing perks like unlimited snacks, Friday happy hours, a wellness stipend, and a strong focus on a healthy work-life balance. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, contribute your ideas to life-changing products and services, and—above all—have fun doing it.

In our newest Fitbit office in Bucharest, located in the heart of the city, we are planning to build on the foundation laid by the Vector Watch team. We are looking to keep growing and this role will be fundamental to the continued success of Fitbit as we build exciting new products and services.

In addition, we have made the following commitments to accelerate our high-performance culture and deliver on our business priorities:

• Champion the customer- to keep all of our customers top of mind, working to improve their experience and increase their satisfaction/loyalty
• Rally Together- to work as one, global, cross-functional team because together we get to stronger outcomes
• Embrace the Challenge- to recognize our unique opportunity to make an impact, taking ownership and initiative to advance our mission.

Think you’ve found your fit? See what we’re looking for below and apply today.

About the teams:

Core Nyx team owns the Sleep domain in Fitbit. This team is involved in bringing the full experience of Sleep features to our users and our committment is to evolve this to be always one step above the competion so that the Fitbit users get the most comprehensive experience, data and isights to improve thier health and habbits.
Also Core Nyx team is involved in Health and Hearth features that help you stay stafe and healthy. Sometimes in our backlog we receive some projects that are targeted more towards devices, rather than on the mobile app experience, usually these projects are highly critical and highly confidential.

Fitbit Premium is a paid-for membership service that uses Fitbit data to deliver personalised, actionable guidance and coaching to help users achieve health and fitness goals. It is designed for users who want to get more out of their experience or find more motivation to make health changes.

The team is heavily involved in increasing premium engagement, growth and subscription retention. You will be working closely with feature teams across the organisation and make use of existing or create new APIs in order to deliver meaningful content to premium users.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on highly visible features with great impact on millions of users.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Strong Java (or similar language) knowledge
• Experience working with high traffic, scalable web applications
• Experience with Spring
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and framework internals
• Ability to speak and write clearly and concisely
• Ability to create and execute a project plan
• Ability to work with a team spanning several time zones and offices
• Engage with our internal customers and translate their needs into specific deliverables
• Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of BigQuery, Google Storage
• Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Apache Beam( for the Premium team)
• Experience with SOA (good SOA design principles and best practices)
• Experience with at least one relational database (e.g. MySQL) and one NoSQL database (e.g. Cassandra)
• Familiarity with asynchronous messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
• DevOps experience

In Fitbit’s Engineering organisation, our values form the guiding principles for how we show up to work every day. We're looking for candidates who will contribute accordingly, making our organisation stronger through the way they engage with their work and peers.

Fitbit Engineering Values:

• Respect the trust our customers place in us
• Own your success
• Help others succeed
• Know the “Why”
• Debate, commit, execute
• Make things we are proud of
• Leverage data to decide & iterate

Fitbit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, colour, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behavior, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or other statuses protected by law. We interpret these protected statuses broadly to include both the actual status and any perceptions and assumptions made regarding these statuses.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance Fitbit will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.