Software Engineer V / Sr. Principal Engineer

About the Opportunity

At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature . 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

We are looking for a highly experienced software development leader, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, who will be responsible for spearheading the entire lifecycle of critical applications, from initial design and architecture to technical implementation, ongoing maintenance, and support, ensuring these mission critical systems function flawlessly and meet our business needs. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in software engineering best practices, deep technical knowledge, and strong leadership skills to guide teams through complex projects.

II. Job Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Engineering

Guide the technical direction of projects, making key architectural decisions, setting code standards, and ensuring best practices are followed across the team.

Functionally and technically decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.

Define Design and develop system architectures, components, and APIs for business-critical applications, ensuring efficient delivery and maintaining high operational quality.

Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. Keep up with the latest technologies and research new tools and frameworks.

Technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

Flexible with an organizational mindset and skills to adapt solutions to organizational needs.

Actively contribute to code development, especially for complex or critical components of the application.

Execution

Managing the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, execution, testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

Lead the execution of critical projects ensuring efficient delivery - On time, high-quality and scalable.

Lead cross-functional teams across the entire development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and ongoing support.

Monitor project progress and identify potential risks to proactively address issues.

Mentorship and Coaching

Coaching and mentoring engineers, fostering a collaborative team environment, and promote knowledge sharing.

Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring team members on advanced technical challenges and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.

Foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the team.

Stakeholder Management

Work closely with managers, designers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and align software solutions with business goals.

Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Communicate technical complexities clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Work closely with other engineers, managers, clients, and stakeholders.

III. Scope

The Sr. Principal Software engineer is a high-level individual contributor role overseeing large scale projects.

This role encompasses leading the entire software development cycle, from planning to architecture design to implementation and maintenance, by indirectly overseeing a team of engineers, ensuring high quality software, making critical technical decisions, mentoring junior developers, and staying updated with the latest technologies to drive innovation with the company.

IV. Knowledge, Education, Skills & Abilities

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field required.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in technical leadership roles.
• E-Commerce & e-Commerce platform experience - SAP Hybris and SAP Commerce Cloud CCV2
• Expert in modern programming languages (Python, Java,) and frameworks.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform), microservices, event driven architecture and containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Track record of delivering large, mission-critical software projects. Lead the design & implementation of scalable, reliable, and secure software systems.
• Ability to tackle ambiguous problems with a systematic approach.
• Excitement to dig in, prototype, build, test, and see projects through to production.
• Strong mentoring, influencing, and decision-making skills.
• Identify emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to business objectives.
• Oversee the delivery of high-impact software projects, ensuring they meet quality, performance, and schedule expectations.
• Utilize your big-picture perspective to spot existing and impending problems, then work with senior engineers and leadership across the department to analyze and solve them.
• Act as a mentor to Principal Engineers and other senior-level staff, fostering growth and technical excellence.
• Knowledge of modern CI/CD, DevOps practices, and tools.
• Communicate technical strategies and progress to executive leadership, stakeholders, and partners.
• Collaborate across teams, including product management, operations, and engineering, to drive alignment and success.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office. - Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• May require travel dependent on company needs.
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 lbs.
• Can work under deadlines.

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.

About Medifast

Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the 40+ year old 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 address obesity and support a healthy life. OPTAVIA provides unparalleled coaching support along with community, tailored nutrition and healthy habits, and empowers people to master their weight loss journey through each stage of life. Through the company's collaboration with national virtual primary care provider LifeMD (Nasdaq: LFMD) and its affiliated medical group, customers now have access to GLP-1 medications where clinically appropriate. Medifast remains committed to its mission of offering Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature . Visit MedifastInc.com and OPTAVIA .com for more information and follow @Medifast on X and LinkedIn .

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