Senior Software Engineer (Backend, Connectivity)
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers people to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. We handle massive amounts of data continuously streaming up to the cloud collected from the world’s greatest sports teams and athletes mandating a fault-tolerant and highly available product.
The Connectivity team focuses on bridging the gap between embedded and mobile engineering, ensuring a seamless and consistent experience for members wearing a WHOOP strap. As a backend engineer on the Connectivity team you’ll focus on building systems and tooling aimed at making our members' experience as seamless as possible. You will also be responsible for grooming junior developers and ensuring best software practices for frictionless and fast software deployments. From ensuring timely firmware updates to members to designing innovative ways to establish connections from software to hardware, we bring WHOOP to the highest level of performance and availability across the globe using the latest cutting edge technology.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work in a cross functional team that works closely with the hardware, embedded, and software engineering teams at WHOOP
- Develop tooling on top of cutting edge technologies in the pursuit of facilitating a seamless WHOOP strap experience
- Create and own systems that aid in analyzing connectivity health of our members
- Work with one or more distributed systems like Kubernetes, Kafka, or Cassandra.
- Work on scaling challenges that span multiple systems and demand high availability and stability.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- You are experienced with utilizing relational databases
- You are an experienced engineer interested in scaling applications, infrastructure, and products world wide.
- You are experienced in working with AWS services and environments (EC2, RDS, Route53, VPC, etc)
- You are experienced in mentoring engineers in best practices in software development
- You are excited to dive deep into challenges that extend past building applications and into infrastructure
- You thrive in a fast paced and data driven environment
- You are a team player who thrives on continuous learning and direct feedback
- You have enthusiasm for the latest and greatest tools and technologies to bring about speed and efficiency to product development
Find out more about us:
"WHOOP Software Principles"
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.
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility