Senior Backend Software Engineer (Remote)

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.

Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology.

Who we are

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people.  Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!

Your role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a part of a team working to build secure systems for the Mindbody ecosystem. You’ll pursue continuous improvement to help Mindbody achieve its mission: Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else.

You'll likely spend time working on

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and QA to iterate on the design, implementation and deployment of our product.
• Build and maintain backend systems and applications.
• Seek different perspectives and solicit honest feedback.
• Practice engineering best practices (e.g., automated testing, code reviews, proper monitoring).
• Take delight in delighting our users.
• Care about our studio partners and want to help them grow their business

About the right team member

You love to design robust and easy to use APIs and services. You know the best software is created through collaboration and iteration and you’re looking for the right opportunity, and the right team, to expand your experience. You seek feedback because it has the ability to turn good work into great work. You like to ship software early and often; you value simplicity and strive to eliminate unnecessary complexity.

At Mindbody+ClassPass we value people who are intellectually curious, who are pragmatic not dogmatic, and people who care about our product, their teammates, and their own personal growth. We are faced with an interesting set of technical challenges, and we believe in giving our engineers the autonomy to go and solve them. Much of our team comes from non-traditional computing backgrounds; we know that by bringing together a diverse set of voices we’ll be able to build a better product, and a better company. We care less about what languages or frameworks you know, and care more that you are excited to produce high-quality code and be constantly learning. Our engineers work in cross-functional teams that are focused on impact, and movement between teams is encouraged. We work very closely with our brilliant product team to deliver a world class user experience, and ultimately to empower our users to live their fullest, healthiest lives.

You'll thrive in this role with experience in

• Senior Experience in programming large-scale SaaS products.
• Experience building backend services with an object-oriented language such as .NET C# and JAVA.
• Experience designing and architecting backend services.
• Experience Designing and working with Microservice architecture.
• Experience with monitoring systems such as New Relic or Kibana.
• Familiarity with SDLC and programming design patterns, and Agile methodology.
• Experience reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks.
• Detail-oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
• Ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.

Technologies you'll be working with

• Experience building highly performant and high-quality backends. We use Kotlin, Python, C#, React and Ruby in our stack but we're most interested in your experience building great systems.
• Understanding of SQL and relational databases.

Have we piqued your curiosity?

Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.

Playlist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.

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_Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.