Engineering Manager, iOS

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At Weight Watchers, we inspire and guide the healthier choices that transform lives. We meet our members where they are and leverage the latest nutritional and behavioral science to help them eat healthier, move more, and shift their mindset. We are a purpose-driven organization and we understand how to create community and deliver personalized services to help our members throughout every step of their journey. We have more than 50 years of history and trust to build on, and we are leveraging technology, community, and behavior science to help more people around the world reach their goals. Our approach is science-based and evidence proven to help people lose weight and develop healthy habits to live life fully. If being part of a purpose-driven, member-focused, high-performing digital culture sounds exciting to you; we invite you to explore our open positions.

We are uniquely positioned to lead the way in the exciting Health Tech industry. With several million people logging in and using Weight Watchers' Apps and systems we are modernizing and rebuilding most of our core experiences and embracing modern engineering practices and techniques. Our strategy is to compete in an increasingly digital weight loss market. Our innovative technology fundamentally improves the way people manage their weight, health and wellness. We are agile service oriented, data-driven, cloud enabled and efficient. We've built Simple UIs on Angular, micro services in Play/Scala & Node, moved our core data to Mongo and Cassandra and enhanced our mobile apps. As reliance on health and wellness awareness increases, come make an impact on a team that is leading the way!

Role overview

As the iOS Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for growing, mentoring, and leading our iOS team to deliver the best iOS experience in the health and wellness space.

About you

If you've got great engineering management skills, strong iOS instincts, and want to see your work appreciated by millions of users, the WW Mobile team is the place for you. We're not your mother's Weight Watchers! We're an agile tech startup within the organization. And we ship every 2 weeks, so there's always something exciting and challenging to work on.

Working as an engineering manager for WW means you get to oversee the development of products that make a huge impact on people's lives. You can be a force for good.

We strive to be early adopters of the latest iOS features, from Swift to Apple Watch. We also love using tools like Cocoapods, fastlane, and CircleCI to help us write modular code and quickly deliver apps to beta testers and the App Store.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage and mentor a team of dedicated iOS engineers
  • Schedule 1-2-1 meetings, help engineers define career goals, conduct annual performance reviews
  • Support and report to Director of Mobile Engineering
  • Recruitment: devise technical exercises, phone-screen candidates, conduct on-site interviews
  • Provide technical oversight of planned development across a number of product-driven crews from a mobile client perspective
  • Plan and run team meetings
  • Make TestFlight and Hockey builds, or oversee those who do
  • Perform constructive code, design, and architecture reviews 
  • Be a touchpoint for technical inquiries from product managers, scrum masters, and customer support
  • Promote information- and skill-sharing across our iOS engineering teams in New York City and San Francisco
  • Enforce best practices within the mobile engineering team
  • Drive architectural migration to MVVM to facilitate testing
  • Act as mobile engineering ambassador in discussions with other engineering departments
  • Ensure engineering excellence to deliver robust, secure, modular, and high-performance software
  • Unblock other team members by finding solutions to complex problems
  • Act as floating engineering resource as business needs arise
  • Participate in Weight Watchers hackathons and tech summits
  • Be an evangelist for Weight Watchers' iOS team in meetups, conferences, blogs, etc.

Experience required

  • 6+ years of full lifecycle iOS development
  • Experience leading a team of iOS engineers
  • Engineering experience on at least one other platform (e.g., Web, Android, Windows, Linux)
  • Excellent command of iOS (Foundation, UIKit, WatchKit, AVFoundation, Core Graphics, Core Animation and others), Swift 4, and functional programming
  • Knowledge of common third-party iOS libraries (e.g., Alamofire, Crashlytics, Firebase)
  • Knowledge of XCTest and the importance of testing as part of robust software delivery
  • Experience with Cocoapods, preferably including the use of private pods
  • Understanding of RESTful API design and micro-service architecture
  • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, OO design, protocol-oriented design and a variety of architectures including MVVM
  • Nuanced understanding of agile practices and the SCRUM software lifecycle
  • Strong track record of shipping products
  • Advanced debugging skills and knowledge of common analytic tools and techniques
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Design, and UX to deliver the best outcome for everyone 
  • Ability to switch between several different contexts on a daily basis

We hire only the best people. Here are the benefits to being top-notch: 

  • The opportunity to work with some of the best innovators in the industry
  • Generous healthcare coverage.
  • 401(K) with company match.
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Annual wellness allowance
  • Profit Sharing

Weight Watchers is an equal opportunity employer. Weight Watchers does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, creed, national origin, marital status, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.

Any offer of employment is contingent upon the satisfactory results of reference and background checks.

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WW has always placed people and wellness at the center of our company. Work from Wherever (#WfW), WW’s global work philosophy, empowers our employees to shape when, where, and how they work to achieve the best possible results --- because we believe work is what you do, not where you do it.

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