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As a Senior Android Engineer, you'll develop features to optimize health and performance by connecting data science algorithms with user-friendly visualizations, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users—Olympians, Professional Athletes, Fitness Enthusiasts, and more—to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. We are looking for highly motivated and skilled engineers to help us scale and take our proven system to new heights.
Our Android app is built using the latest native technologies and features rich user interfaces and data visualizations, delivering highly actionable and relevant information to WHOOP members to help maximize their daily performance.
As a Senior Android Engineer at WHOOP, you’ll play a critical role in building features that empower members to optimize their health and performance. By connecting our powerful data science algorithms with intuitive and engaging visualizations, you'll help transform complex insights into meaningful, actionable experiences. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to develop features that support our mission to unlock human performance.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams in a fast-paced growth environment.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Android platform by defining and applying best practices to improve usability for both users and developers.
- Communicate effectively with immediate team members and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Lead and contribute to cross-team projects, working alongside backend, iOS, and Android engineers.
- Present technical solutions, improvements, and frameworks to the broader software team for adoption.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Proven experience building, testing, debugging, and shipping Android applications in a professional environment.
- Strong proficiency in Kotlin and familiarity with Android frameworks such as Jetpack Compose, Room, Coroutines, and Android Architecture Components.
- Deep understanding of Android Studio and related debugging and profiling tools.
- Experience integrating with RESTful backend services.
- A product-driven mindset with a strong sense of customer empathy.
- Eagerness to learn and rapidly grow across Android technologies and external systems.
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.
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Top Skills
Android Architecture Components
Android Studio
Coroutines
Jetpack Compose
Kotlin
Restful Services
Room
WHOOP Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
1 Kenmore Sq, Boston, MA, United States, 02215
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