3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of foundational backend capabilities that improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Drive technical planning for complex initiatives by defining scope, sequencing work, identifying risks, and communicating tradeoffs.
- Deliver platform capabilities while balancing technical quality, business priorities, and data-informed engineering decisions.
- Establish backend engineering standards through architecture discussions, code reviews, documentation, and technical leadership.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with engineering, product management, design, data science, and performance science partners.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence engineering direction, and mentor engineers.
- Deep backend development expertise, including Java, API design, distributed systems, and relational databases such as Postgres.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and observable systems using cloud-native and event-driven architectures such as Kafka or SQS.
- Strong engineering judgment and experience balancing technical quality, business priorities, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience writing well-tested, maintainable software and establishing engineering best practices through technical leadership.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical partners.
- Enthusiasm for leveraging AI tools while maintaining high standards for quality and engineering excellence.
- Experience building shared platform capabilities or contributing across mobile and backend is a bonus.
Benefits
- The role is based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office, and successful candidates must be prepared to relocate if necessary.
- 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.