Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Business Systems)

Whoop • Boston, MA

3d • $170,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

WHOOP is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Business Systems team. The role focuses on architecting, developing, and optimizing backend infrastructure and user experiences that support internal operations and enable organizational scale and efficiency. The engineer will design, build, and evolve services and integrations for Supply & Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Order Management, Fulfillment & Logistics, Membership Services, and other business functions. This position calls for a backend engineer who can build scalable, reliable, and flexible systems, take on high-impact challenges, and deliver user-centric solutions.

The position is based in WHOOP’s Boston, Massachusetts office. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work from that office.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• At least 8 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering and operating production software for complex business workflows, with technical leadership across multiple systems or teams.
• Ability to evaluate architectural tradeoffs between custom software and third-party platforms, considering business value, security, reliability, and ongoing maintenance.
• Expertise in API design, relational databases, and enterprise application or cloud-service integrations, including data consistency, retries, and failure recovery.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go, with a record of writing maintainable, well-tested code.
• Ability to work across product domains and develop backend solutions for resilient, high-throughput data processing networks, task automation, and streamlined business workflows.
• Deep experience with cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and distributed systems.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business needs into practical technical plans and communicate decisions clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Collaborative, proactive approach; eagerness to take on challenges, learn, and adapt in a fast-paced, data-informed environment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and influencing cross-functional partners through collaboration, sound technical judgment, and focus on shared outcomes.
• Commitment to using AI tools in day-to-day work while holding AI-assisted work to the same quality standards as personal contributions.
• Preparedness to relocate if necessary to work from WHOOP’s Boston, MA office.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for critical Business Systems domains, establishing architecture and a roadmap that balance 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 data accuracy and flow.
• Design and implement user experiences for interacting with backend systems.
• Partner with stakeholders across business functions to understand workflows, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Lead complex technical initiatives from discovery through production rollout, coordinate dependencies across teams and vendors, and measure operational efficiency, reliability, and user adoption.
• Improve the security and resilience of business-critical systems through automated testing, observability, appropriate access controls, and production-incident-informed improvements.
• Mentor engineers and improve technical decision-making through hands-on development, design and code reviews, and clear documentation.
• Independently drive work forward while building the cross-functional trust and alignment needed to move quickly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior