Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Growth)

WHOOP

about 2 months ago

Boston, MA, USA

Senior

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $210k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable and reliable backend services for growth experiments and member engagement.
Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to define and deliver impactful features.
Maintain and optimize APIs and infrastructure using Java, Kafka, Postgres, and AWS.
Take ownership of end-to-end development from requirements to deployment and monitoring.
Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Professional experience developing large-scale backend systems in a production environment.
Deep proficiency in building and maintaining RESTful APIs and working with relational databases.
Experience with event-driven architectures and tools like Kafka or SQS.
Strong testing practices and clear documentation habits.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment focused on growth.
Proven collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data teams.
A growth mindset and excitement for tackling ambiguous challenges.
Bonus: Experience building A/B testing infrastructure or growth-focused engineering features.

Competitive base salary and meaningful equity.
Generous equity package that aligns employees with the company's long-term success.
Encouragement to apply even if not meeting every qualification.

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