Director of Engineering, Infrastructure

The Opportunity

Lose It! is looking for a Director of Engineering, Infrastructure to lead the team behind the systems that power our products and business. This role reports directly to the CTO.

Millions of people rely on Lose It! every day to build healthier habits, lose weight, and reach their goals. As we invest in coaching, personalization, and new product experiences, we need an engineering leader who can scale the systems behind them.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a small Infrastructure Engineering team, including hiring and performance management.
• Own the technical direction for cloud infrastructure, backend services, our website, developer tooling, observability, and operational systems.
• Improve reliability, scalability, security, and engineering effectiveness across the platform.
• Make it easier and safer for engineers to build, deploy, and operate software.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and business stakeholders on architecture, technical strategy, and operational priorities.
• Lead incident response readiness, operational practices, and service ownership across the organization.
• Balance long-term technical investments with the needs of a fast-moving product business.
• Ensure the platform can support the company’s next generation of products, experiences, and growth initiatives.

Job Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams, managers, or senior technical contributors.
• Strong technical background spanning cloud infrastructure, backend systems, web technologies, and operational tooling.
• Experience operating and scaling systems on AWS.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, deployment automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience supporting consumer-facing products at scale is strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to lead small, high-impact teams with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
• Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous environments and driving progress despite changing priorities or constraints.
• A growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, and a bias toward action.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

About Lose It!

Lose It! is on a mission to change the way people view weight loss. Through the proven approach of calorie counting, Lose It! empowers members by providing support, motivation, and the tools they need for success on their journey to a healthy weight. We mobilize the world to achieve its health goals by developing best-in-class mobile experiences on iOS and Android.

About Ziff Davis

Ziff Davis (NASDAQ: ZD) is a vertically focused digital media and internet company whose portfolio includes leading brands in technology, shopping, gaming and entertainment, health, cybersecurity, and martech. Today, Ziff Davis is focused on several key verticals - Technology, Shopping, Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cybersecurity and Marketing Technology. Its brands include IGN, Mashable, RetailMeNot, PCMag, Humble Bundle, Spiceworks, Everyday Health, BabyCenter, Moz, iContent and Vipre Security.