Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack, Platform)

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 to add highly motivated skilled engineers to our team to help us scale and take our proven system to new heights.

The Platform Team at WHOOP is responsible for owning and enabling operational excellence in software delivery and practices, by enabling teams to do their best work through automation, tooling, and expert guidance. We take a very data-driven approach to everything we do, meaning we frequently measure the performance of our features and make iterations based on those results.

As a Senior Software Engineer joining WHOOP’s Platform team, you’ll play a key role in driving large-scale architecture projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement infrastructure that is highly scalable, resilient, and secure. Our work is at the intersection of security, privacy, cloud excellence, developer experience and product development. We are responsible for building foundational software services and libraries that enable our backend engineers to develop compliant applications securely.

Responsibilities

Help execute our vision to provide a unified user experience that meets our commitment to member security, data privacy, and cloud security
Contribute to full stack development: Java, JavaScript, AWS and Postgres
Work collaboratively with a product and technical vision
Build software that will solve the needs of multiple cross-functional teams
Consistently deliver features and PRs with an iterative approach
Develop necessary alerting and monitoring to ensure stability our our systems
Mentor other developers while establishing best practices in our web stack
Work with Product and Growth teams to gather technical requirements

Qualifications

4+ years of professional experience working on large scale software systems
Expertise developing web applications using frameworks like React
Experience hosting web applications in tools like Kubernetes and Cloudflare
Experience in API design and development (Java preferred)
Experience in relational database design and development (SQL)
Strong skills translating design specifications into fully functional applications
Experience developing large scale, production-quality web applications
Thrives with autonomy, with a positive attitude and ownership mentality
Strong communication skills to work both collaboratively and independently

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.