Senior Android Engineer (Women's Health)
WHOOP
Software Engineering
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Jan 14, 2025
At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Our wearable device tracks key physiological metrics such as heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and sleep quality to provide personalized insights into users' fitness, health, and recovery.
As a Senior Android Engineer on the Women’s Health team, you will play a critical role in developing innovative features that empower our members to understand and optimize their health. This includes creating tools that address unique aspects of women’s health, such as Pregnancy Insights and Menstrual Cycle Coaching. Your work will span WHOOP’s three core pillars—Strain, Sleep, and Recovery—delivering personalized guidance through engaging and intuitive user interfaces. By integrating cutting-edge technology with advancements in women’s health research, you will help translate complex data science algorithms into actionable insights for our members, enabling them to take meaningful steps toward improving their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Additionally, you’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across the company to shape the future of women’s health and wellness at WHOOP.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Utilize knowledge of Kotlin and Java to develop and maintain product features and communicate with a RESTful backend
- Lead and contribute to new feature ideation, planning, and development
- Work with Product Engineers to devise solutions to challenges across the WHOOP system
- Document new features and architecture
- Help mentor and elevate junior developers on the team
- Analyze and monitor user metrics and feedback to determine crash rate or potential bugs and to improve engagement
- Participate in the release process including getting the app built, managing build variants, signing, sending and testing through Firebase, and submitting to the App store
- Self organize using productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Github
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Product minded engineer with empathy for the member experience
- Possess a strong willingness to learn and grow rapidly across Android and external systems
- Expert knowledge of Android application structure and components as well as lifecycle and Android Design Guidelines
- Experience in building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android apps in a professional environment
- Knowledge of Kotlin and frameworks such as Coroutines, Android Jetpack libraries (including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation), Room database, and Retrofit / OkHttp.Well-versed in communicating with a RESTful backend
- Experience using Git to organize feature work
- Experience using best-practice mobile architecture and modular design, including patterns such as MVVM, MVI, etc
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.
WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.