Software Engineer II (Backend, Application Infrastructure)
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 from people improving their health and wellness to the world’s greatest sports teams and athletes mandating a fault-tolerant and highly available product.
The Application Infrastructure team focuses on building technology that enables rapid user growth worldwide and accelerates product development across our entire software organization. The team manages the latest and greatest platforms encompassing application, system, and network level infrastructure. We aim to bring WHOOP to the highest level of performance and availability across the globe using a combination of AWS and cloud native infrastructure.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work in a cross functional team that works closely with all product teams across WHOOP
- Develop tooling on top of cutting edge technologies in the pursuit of expediting developer productivity and speed across all software stacks
- Help create a first class development experience by simplifying the way WHOOP builds product features
- Work with one or more distributed systems like Kubernetes, Kafka, or Cassandra
- Build and automate high throughput data pipelines to help deliver real time insights to customers
- You will work on scaling challenges that span multiple systems and demand high availability and stability. See some of the recent scaling challenges our team has been working on in more detail
QUALIFICATIONS
- You are experienced with backend development (preferably object oriented) in APIs and background workers
- 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
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.
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.