Software Engineer II (Backend, Platform)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable backend systems that power WHOOP’s core infrastructure and member experience.
• Collaborate with product managers, data engineers, frontend developers, and other cross-functional partners to deliver features that enhance member engagement.
• Build and maintain APIs to enable seamless integration with frontend applications and third-party services.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance through effective testing, monitoring, and optimization.
• Implement secure coding practices and contribute to designing systems that safeguard member data.
• Stay current with backend technologies and contribute to improving team engineering standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of backend software development experience, ideally in languages like Java, Python, or C#.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture (messaging/streaming tech such as Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with database design and management (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, or NoSQL databases).
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with cybersecurity principles (data privacy, authentication, and authorization) is a plus but not required.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with infrastructure as code and developer enablement platforms.
• Familiarity with containers and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Background in cloud security or incident response.
• Exposure to building translation or localization platforms to support multi-language content delivery.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (logging, monitoring, alerting) in production environments.