Senior Android Engineer (Simplified Design)

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. 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 Simplified Design Team, you will design an intuitive, world-class experience that prioritizes clarity, eliminates friction and highlights value across the member journey. This is accomplished by building features that enable members to optimize their health and performance by connecting members to our powerful data science algorithms through our beautiful visualizations. Working alongside product management, design, and fellow engineers, your work will span WHOOP’s three core pillars — Strain, Sleep, and Recovery — delivering personalized guidance through engaging and intuitive user interfaces.

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

Learn more about our Software Org and how to be successful in your engineering career at WHOOP via our Career Framework.

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.