Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Health)
Whoop
- Boston, MA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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