4 months ago
Boston, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deliver scalable backend services powering member-facing experiences.
- Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work while identifying risks and dependencies.
- Improve system reliability, performance, and observability through testing, monitoring, and continuous refinement.
- Contribute to shared engineering foundations through code reviews, documentation, and technical discussions.
- Support other engineers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.
- Partner with engineering, product management, design, data science, and performance science teams.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to independently deliver production-quality software while collaborating across engineering, product, and design.
- Strong backend development proficiency with Java, RESTful APIs, and relational databases such as Postgres.
- Experience with cloud platforms and asynchronous systems such as Kafka or SQS.
- Experience designing, testing, and maintaining reliable, scalable backend services.
- Understanding of distributed systems, observability, and performance optimization.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Desire to learn, iterate, and continuously improve.
- Enthusiasm for leveraging AI tools while maintaining high engineering quality standards.
- Bonus: experience contributing to mobile applications or shared platform services.
Benefits
- The role is based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office.
- Successful candidates must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work from the Boston office.
- WHOOP is an equal opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify.
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About WHOOP
WHOOP builds a wearable health and performance tracker paired with an analytics app that measures sleep, recovery, and strain for athletes and health‑conscious consumers. Its business model combines device sales with a recurring membership that unlocks coaching features and insights. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company also serves enterprise wellness programs and sports organizations seeking continuous performance monitoring.