Senior Backend Engineer

🚀 Who Are We?

Welcome to Welltech—where health meets innovation! 🌍 As a global leader in the Health & Fitness industry, we’ve crossed over 200 million installs with five life-changing apps, all designed to boost well-being for millions. Our mission? To transform lives through intuitive nutrition trackers, powerful fitness solutions, and personalized wellness journeys—all powered by a diverse team of over 700 passionate professionals with presence across 5 hubs.

Why Welltech and why now?
Imagine joining a team where your impact on global health and wellness is felt daily. At Welltech, we strive to be proactive wellness partners for our users, while continually evolving ourselves to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Today we are embarking on a journey to reshape our product into a highly personalized, coach-like experience that provides holistic care to our users across all aspects of wellness and fitness. To accomplish this we are starting two new teams:

1. Team focused on crafting the new disruptive product experience as well as the system powering it

2. Team on a mission to provide our users with world class wellness and fitness content through the new product experience

It’s a greenfield opportunity to try to disrupt the wellness & fitness industry. We are looking for product minded, impact-driven engineers to join us on this journey!

What We’re Looking For

We are seeking a product-minded, impact-driven Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Domain Driven Design, cross-functional product development and Developer Productivity. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to spearhead the development of a greenfield product, evolve existing content management systems, and ensure our platforms remain robust, scalable, and efficient. You’ll be an advocate for highly iterative development approaches, data-driven decision-making in your team, fueling our mission to bring health and wellness to millions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead development of a greenfield product: Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to spearhead development of a greenfield, data and multimedia powered product in the wellness & fitness space

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, software engineers, content producers, data experts, and infrastructure teams

• Mentor & lead by example: Provide guidance to team members, lead team level product and engineering initiatives, influence coding standards, support your team in making critical decisions

• Set us up to maximize the pace of experimentation: Advocate for and drive implementation of highly iterative development practices and technical solutions that can allow us to maximize the pace of experimentation while maintaining quality

• Be a champion of Engineering Excellence: Advocate for and implement best engineering practices, foster a learning culture, and influence strategic technical decisions in your team. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems owned by your team

Required Skills:

• Strong product & business mindset: Proven ability to drive the building of successful products and/or platforms used by product teams, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Domain experts to create value for customers

• Domain Driven Design: comprehensive system design skills with proven impact building new and refactoring existing large-scale systems powering customer-facing products

• Proven technical foundation: Strong hands-on engineering background on the backend, strong experience with relational and non-relational databases and AWS infrastructure (e.g. Lambda/API Gateway/SQS/SES/CloudFormation/CloudWatch)

• Language and tool agnostic approach: Ready to pick the right tool for each challenge Experience with building efficient, scalable, reliable backend systems in Python or Kotlin is a plus

• System-level impact: Track record of influencing technical direction of your team and of effective collaboration with adjacent teams, with the ability to highlight risks, trade-offs and propose efficient solutions

• Engineering culture & excellence: Demonstrated ability to shape and elevate engineering culture, methodologies, and best practices in your team

• Developer productivity: Experienced in maximising developer productivity through the right technical choices, highly iterative development practices to achieve high pace of data-driven experimentation

• End-to-end ownership and dealing with ambiguity: You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and taking a leading role in executing on them

• (Nice to Have) Experience with Data and/or Multimedia

Ready to make a transformative impact on global wellness? Join us at Welltech and help millions of users lead healthier, happier lives!

Candidate journey

⭕️ Recruiter call --> ⭕️ Meet a team member --> ⭕️ Meet the Leadership team --> ⭕️ Skills assessment

Why You'll Love Working at Welltech:

✨ Why You’ll Love Being Part of Welltech:

• Grow Together: Join a culture that champions both personal and professional growth. Here, you’ll thrive as we learn, evolve, and succeed together.

• Lead by Example: No matter your role, your leadership matters. Every team member is empowered to inspire and make an impact.

• Results-Driven: We’re all about achieving meaningful outcomes. It’s not just about the effort, but the difference we make every day.

• We Are Well-Makers: Be part of a movement that’s creating a healthier, happier world. Together, we make well-being a reality!