Whoop
Software Engineer II (Backend, Platform)
$125K–$175K
Boston, MA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2026
- Experience
- 2–4 years of backend software development experience.
About the job
Builds and maintains secure, scalable backend services and platform systems that support WHOOP’s member experience.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and APIs.
- Improve reliability, scalability, and performance through testing, monitoring, and optimization.
- Use secure coding practices and collaborate across teams to deliver platform features.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Exposure to event-driven architecture.
- Familiarity with database design and management.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with cybersecurity principles, including data privacy, authentication, and authorization.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containers and orchestration, cloud security, incident response, localization platforms, or production observability tools.
Pay
$125,000 - $175,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Python, C#, Kafka, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS
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