Manager, Data Platform Engineering

iFIT’s vision is to create the world's most holistic health and fitness platform, integrating all elements of health - physical fitness, mental health, nutrition and active recovery - into a seamless interactive experience. We develop proprietary software that learns and adjusts to the habits of each person as it delivers immersive content that guides them on their own individual fitness journey.

Join iFIT, a global leader in fitness innovation, connecting millions of users worldwide. Our mission is to empower people to lead a healthy and sustainable lifestyle through innovative fitness solutions. We strive to push the boundaries by delivering engaging products that enhance the quality of our members' lives.

As a hands-on technical leader on the Data Engineering team, you will be an integral part of our platform that ingests and catalogs our users’ workout data, biometrics, and fitness content. From building scalable pipelines and platforms, to enabling cutting-edge machine learning, to ensuring scale and cost efficiency, we deliver the foundation for breakthrough products and amazing user experiences.

As the Manager of Data Engineering, you will lead and scale a team of data engineers, owning execution, roadmap, architectural direction, and cross-functional alignment of data infrastructure, pipelines, and platforms. You will partner with product, subscriptions, AI engineers and security to ensure data is reliable, accessible, timely, and enables the company’s strategic goals. You will translate business strategy into data initiatives, ensure best practices, and foster the growth, cohesion, and technical maturity of the data engineering organization.

ROLE COMMITMENTS

1. Build and grow the team responsible for three foundational capabilities of the Data Platform: Workouts, Biometrics and Content powering iFIT experiences on equipment and the mobile application
2. Translate business strategy into data initiatives, ensure best practices, and foster the growth, cohesion, and technical maturity of the data engineering organization

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years professional experience in data engineering, software engineering, or infrastructure roles
• 4+ experience as an application developer using strongly-typed language such as TypeScript, Java, or Scala is desired
• 1+ years experience leading teams to deliver high impact business and technical outcomes
• Deep technical expertise in building large-scale data systems, including ingestion, transformation, and serving layers
• Experience designing or evolving data storage and platforms, shared infrastructure, or internal tooling (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, Spark, Flink)
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices (modularity, testability, code reviews, CI/CD) and event/queue solutions, and event-driven architectures
• Demonstrated track record of architecting for reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability
• Solid cross-functional communication skills, ability to influence at senior levels

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement event-driven systems built on Apache Flink/Spark, AWS Glue, Kafka/Kinesis, S3 and MongoDB. Leverage eventually-consistent patterns to ensure correctness.
• Build and maintain backend microservices in TypeScript and Node.JS (NestJS) deployed via AWS ECS. Ensure services are well-designed, scalable, and aligned with our service-oriented architecture and best practices.
• Design, implement, and document robust GraphQL APIs. Ensure new and existing APIs are secure, efficient, and easy for downstream teams to use.
• Work closely with other backend teams, product managers, and designers to power new product features. Communicate effectively to clarify requirements, review designs, and ensure seamless integration across multiple services.
• Advocate and implement sustainable, repeatable practices, and automation to minimize manual operational tasks.
• Actively participate in remote team meetings (on-camera required).
• Write clean, well-tested code and participate in peer code reviews. Uphold high standards for code quality, maintain comprehensive unit/integration tests, and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines.
• Take ownership of the reliability of the services you build. Monitor performance and troubleshoot production issues. Participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule to quickly address critical incidents and minimize downtime.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with Health Platform providers APIs (HealthKit, HealthConnect, Strava, Garmin, Oura)
• Contributions to open source projects
• Experience with Serverless framework (AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with REST API development and design patterns
• Knowledge of Node.JS web frameworks (NestJS, Express.js)
• Previous roles involving mentoring or training team members