Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. WeightWatchers is a global digital health company focused on redefining weight health care. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale systems that enhance the member experience through reliable backend services and innovative technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop and Scale the Member Experience Platform
- Feature Ownership: Lead the backend design and implementation of services that connect our mobile and web clients to scalable APIs and data stores
- Performance Engineering: Identify and resolve latency and availability bottlenecks in critical member flows like food search, logging, and onboarding
- Standardization: Implement standardized patterns for service contracts, event-driven architecture, and data ownership to ensure consistent delivery across the platform
- Modernize Data and Tracking Foundations
- Food Database Excellence: Build and maintain high-performance services to improve search relevance and data quality for our global food database
- State Management: Help define how member data is cached, synced, and audited across services to minimize inconsistencies and improve system observability
- Robust Interfaces: Establish clean interfaces between operational systems and ML pipelines to ensure personalization is powered by reliable data
- Reliability and Operational Excellence
- SLO-Driven Development: Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs for your services, ensuring they meet member expectations for performance and uptime
- Resiliency Patterns: Implement backend resiliency strategies such as circuit breaking, retries, and graceful degradation for major member workflows
- Security & Compliance: Partner with Security teams to embed automated controls into backend services, particularly for sensitive health-related data
- Technical Design: Create detailed technical designs and lead code reviews for complex backend features, ensuring high standards of maintainability
- Execution: Drive the delivery of multi-sprint projects, balancing rapid iteration with technical debt management and long-term stability
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of incident learning and operational readiness
- Collaboration: Partner closely with Infrastructure engineering, Product, Data Science, and Design to translate business requirements into efficient, scalable backend systems
- Problem Solving: Identify and resolve structural bottlenecks in existing services, such as data inconsistencies or brittle integrations
Skills
- 5-8+ years of experience building backend systems for large-scale consumer applications (e.g., APIs, microservices, data stores)
- Deep understanding of building large-scale distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Expertise in modern cloud architectures (AWS), database design, and building for high-availability
- Proven ability to design data models that support complex product workflows and analytics needs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documenting architectural decisions and collaborating across teams
- Ownership-minded: You take pride in the quality of your code and the operational health of the services you manage
- Pragmatic: You make technical choices based on member outcomes and business impact, avoiding unnecessary complexity
- Collaborative: You build trust through clear communication, strong documentation, and predictable follow-through
- Java or Go experience preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Annual bonus program
- Hybrid work environment
- Worker's compensation insurance for work-related injuries or illness for eligible employees
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