Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack, Platform)
WHOOP
Software Engineering
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Mar 1, 2025
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. We are looking to add highly motivated skilled engineers to our team to help us scale and take our proven system to new heights.
The Platform Team at WHOOP is responsible for owning and enabling operational excellence in software delivery and practices, by enabling teams to do their best work through automation, tooling, and expert guidance. We take a very data-driven approach to everything we do, meaning we frequently measure the performance of our features and make iterations based on those results.
As a Senior Software Engineer joining WHOOP’s Platform team, you’ll play a key role in driving large-scale architecture projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement infrastructure that is highly scalable, resilient, and secure. Our work is at the intersection of security, privacy, cloud excellence, developer experience and product development. We are responsible for building foundational software services and libraries that enable our backend engineers to develop compliant applications securely.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Help execute our vision to provide a unified user experience that meets our commitment to member security, data privacy, and cloud security
- Contribute to full stack development: Java, JavaScript, AWS and Postgres
- Work collaboratively with a product and technical vision
- Build software that will solve the needs of multiple cross-functional teams
- Consistently deliver features and PRs with an iterative approach
- Develop necessary alerting and monitoring to ensure stability our our systems
- Mentor other developers while establishing best practices in our web stack
- Work with Product and Growth teams to gather technical requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of professional experience working on large scale software systems
- Expertise developing web applications using frameworks like React
- Experience hosting web applications in tools like Kubernetes and Cloudflare
- Experience in API design and development (Java preferred)
- Experience in relational database design and development (SQL)
- Strong skills translating design specifications into fully functional applications
- Experience developing large scale, production-quality web applications
- Thrives with autonomy, with a positive attitude and ownership mentality
- Strong communication skills to work both collaboratively and independently
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.