Software Engineer II (Backend, Healthcare)
Boston, MAFull-TimeMid-levelSoftware Engineering
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Contribute to engineering efforts within a cross-functional team, collaborating with designers, product managers, other engineers, and our Digital Health team to refine and advance the WHOOP platform.
- Develop and maintain robust backend services using Java, Kafka, Postgres, and other AWS technologies, ensuring stability and performance.
- Contribute to the ideation, technical design, and implementation of new features and platforms, transforming complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions
- Work on scaling challenges that span multiple systems and demand high availability and reliability.
- Write clean, testable, and maintainable code, while participating in code reviews and documentation practices.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Professional experience in backend development, with a strong foundation in object-oriented programming, API design, and relational databases (RESTful APIs, Postgres)
- Familiarity with asynchronous processing systems (Kafka, SQS).
- Experience writing automated tests and documenting code for a variety of audiences.
- A passion for approaching large-scale problems guided by data-driven insights and a commitment to agile, iterative development
- A proactive, collaborative team player, eager to take on new challenges, continuously learn, and adapt in a fast-paced, data-informed environment
