Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Health)

Key Skills

Apache Kafka, AWS, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Postgres, RESTful

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) on the Health team, you will help build and maintain exciting features across our three core pillars at WHOOP (Strain, Sleep & Recovery) and connect members to our powerful data science algorithms through beautiful visualizations. You will help our members understand all aspects of their health: physical, mental, emotional, and hormonal and guide them in ways to take action to improve it. The Health team works with cutting-edge technology and research in the health and wellness industry, like WHOOP’s pregnancy feature, and develops novel measurements, such as WHOOP's stress monitoring feature.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work in a cross functional team that collaborates closely with the data science, product, and software engineering teams at WHOOP
• Contribute to back end development using the following technologies: Java, Kafka, Postgres, and other AWS offerings
• Contribute to new feature ideation, planning, and development
• Translate feature requirements into actionable tasks, identify risks, and ship often to mitigate those risks
• Work on scaling challenges that span multiple systems and demand high availability and stability
• Support and up-level engineers around you through direct and indirect mentorship

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with backend development in APIs and with interacting with relational databases (RESTful APIs, Postgres)
• Experience working with asynchronous workers (Kafka, SQS)
• Experience writing tests and documenting code for a variety of audiences
• An innate passion for approaching large-scale problems through small, data-informed, and experiment-driven iterations
• You are experienced in mentoring engineers in best practices in software development
• You thrive in a fast-paced and data-driven environment
• You are a team player who thrives on continuous learning and direct feedback