4 months ago
Boston, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$125k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems supporting WHOOP’s core infrastructure and member experience.
- Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, frontend developers, and other partners to deliver member-facing features.
- Build and maintain APIs for frontend applications and third-party integrations.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and performance through testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Implement secure coding practices and help design systems that safeguard member data.
- Contribute to backend technology evaluations, engineering standards, and best practices.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of backend software development experience, ideally with Java, Python, or C#.
- Experience designing and building APIs and microservices.
- Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging or streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Familiarity with database design and management, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Cybersecurity familiarity involving data privacy, authentication, and authorization is helpful but not required.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred experience includes infrastructure as code, developer enablement platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud security, incident response, localization platforms, and production observability tools.
Benefits
- Competitive U.S. base salary of $125,000–$175,000, meaningful equity, and benefits.
- The role is based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office, and relocation is required if necessary.
- The position is a full-time immediate hire opportunity.
- Successful candidates receive a generous equity package in addition to base salary and benefits.
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.