What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Platform) position at Whoop?
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. We are looking for motivated engineers to join our team on our mission.
The Software Platform group focuses on building technology that enables rapid user growth worldwide and accelerates product development across our entire software organization, while ensuring stability, security, and compliance. We handle massive amounts of data continuously streaming up to the cloud from everyday people improving their health and wellness to the world's greatest sports teams and athletes. The team builds shared services and custom tooling that enables our developers to deliver value to those customers, while also maintaining and improving critical infrastructure like Kubernetes and Kafka.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will be building and directly supporting some of the most critical tools and pieces of infrastructure within the software organization. You will help set the direction of Platform to empower WHOOP to grow to the next level, with an essential focus on security, scalability, and reliability.
\n- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems that support our core infrastructure and member experience.
- Shape and develop best practices for software development at WHOOP.
- Collaborate across software and product teams driving mission-critical initiatives.
- Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and collaborative innovation
- Interest in scaling applications, infrastructure, and products worldwide.
- Experience gathering feedback from multiple stakeholders and prioritizing work to maximize business impact.
- Deep expertise in backend development, with a strong foundation in object-oriented programming, API design, and relational databases (RESTful APIs, Postgres)
- Experience working with distributed systems.
- Experience working with AWS services and environments.
- Skillset to develop and mentor best practices in software development.
- Enthusiasm for the latest and greatest tools and technologies to bring about speed and efficiency to product development
- Familiarity with cybersecurity principles, including data privacy, authentication, and authorization, is plus but not required
Learn more about our Software Org and how to be successful in your engineering career at WHOOP via our Career Framework.
This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
