Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Business Systems)

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whoop.com

501-1,000 employees

Wellness and Fitness Services

Boston, MA

2012

Privately Held

311k LinkedIn followers

Raised $989.8M

• Set technical direction for critical domains within the Business Systems team, establishing an architecture and roadmap that balances immediate business priorities with long-term reliability, flexibility, and scale.
• Architect, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, integrations, and internal tools that connect business platforms, reduce manual work, and improve the accuracy and flow of data across systems.
• Design and implement well-loved user experiences to interact with backend systems.
• Partner with stakeholders across all of the teams mentioned above to understand critical workflows, identify opportunities for needle-moving improvement, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead engineering efforts for complex technical initiatives from discovery through production rollout, coordinating dependencies across teams and vendors and measuring outcomes through operational efficiency, reliability, and user adoption.
• Strengthen the security and resilience of business-critical systems through automated testing, observability, appropriate access controls, and improvements informed by production incidents.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical decision-making through hands-on development, thoughtful design and code reviews, and clear documentation that builds shared understanding and ownership.
• Independently drive your agenda forward; this is a highly cross-functional role that needs broad trust and alignment in order to thrive. You must be skilled in driving this independently while also being able to move quickly.

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering and operating production software for complex business workflows, with demonstrated technical leadership across multiple systems or teams.
• Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs across custom software and third-party platforms, considering business value, security, reliability, and ongoing maintenance.
• Deep expertise in designing APIs, working with relational databases, and integrating enterprise applications or cloud services, including managing data consistency, retries, and failure recovery.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar)., with a track record of writing maintainable, well-tested code.
• Demonstrated ability to interface with multiple product domains, particularly in developing backend solutions for resilient, high-throughput data processing networks, task automation, and streamlined workflows to optimize business operations
• Deep experience with cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) and distributed systems.
• A strategic problem-solver with the ability to turn ambiguous business needs into practical technical plans and communicate decisions clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• A proactive, collaborative team player, eager to take on new challenges, continuously learn, and adapt in a fast-paced, data-informed environment
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional partners through collaboration, sound technical judgment, and a focus on shared outcomes.
• Strong commitment to embracing and leveraging AI tools in day-to-day tasks, ensuring AI-assisted work aligns with the same high-quality standards as personal contributions.
• 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.

• Equity
• Competitive base salary