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.

The Role You’ll Play

We’re hiring a Software Engineer II to build and ship customer-facing experiences across the Mindbody consumer ecosystem. This role blends Android development with meaningful backend ownership, and you’ll contribute across layers to deliver end-to-end outcomes with a high bar for quality, performance, and maintainability.

Build and ship Android product features that are reliable, performant, and easy to maintain
Contribute to backend services and APIs that power mobile experiences, including implementation, debugging, and incremental improvements
Own well-scoped projects end-to-end with guidance, from requirements and design through rollout and post-launch follow-ups
Write clean, maintainable code with appropriate automated tests (unit and integration where applicable)
Participate in code reviews and strengthen the codebase through refactors and incremental modernization
Debug production issues and participate in on-call and incident response as part of the team rotation
Partner with Product, Design, QA, and peer engineers to deliver iteratively and communicate tradeoffs clearly
Document key decisions and keep updates current in Notion as the team’s source of truth

Experience You Bring

3+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent practical experience)
Experience shipping production Android apps
Kotlin preferred, or strong Java experience with an expectation to ramp into Kotlin
Experience contributing to backend systems (services and APIs) or demonstrated ability and interest to ramp quickly
Strong CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, debugging, and system design for mid-sized components
Experience with API design or consumption, including authentication patterns and performance considerations
Familiarity with observability practices (logs, metrics, traces), incident response, and production debugging
Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and release processes

What you’ll work on

Android feature development and platform improvements
Mobile-to-backend integration, including API consumption, contract iteration, and reliability improvements
Backend capabilities that unblock mobile initiatives, such as service endpoints, data shaping, latency improvements, and correctness fixes
Cross-stack initiatives as priorities evolve, with flexible ownership across surfaces

Team and collaboration

Partner with engineers across Android, iOS, backend, web, QA, Product, and Design
Collaborate in a cross-functional environment with clear communication around status, risks, and tradeoffs

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.

The Company 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.