Whoop
Staff Android Engineer, Connectivity
Boston, MA · Staff+ · Full-time
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$16,160 more — $186,160 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $186,160 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- We handle massive amounts of data continuously streaming up to the cloud from people improving their health and wellness to the world's greatest sports teams and athletes mandating a fault-tolerant and highly available product.
- The Connectivity team focuses on bridging the gap between embedded and mobile engineering, ensuring a seamless and consistent experience for members wearing a WHOOP strap.
- At the Staff level, your impact is measured as much by the engineers and decisions you influence as by the code you write.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the Android connectivity layer end to end, from the BLE transport up through history sync and firmware delivery, and drive its evolution across a large modular codebase
- Collaborate within a cross-functional environment alongside WHOOP hardware, firmware, and software teams
- Apply expert-level mastery of the Android Bluetooth stack to manage GATT operations, bonding, and reconnection logic in real-world scenarios
- Own connection reliability across the fragmented Android device landscape by diagnosing and mitigating OEM specific Bluetooth, power management, and permission behavior
- Document new features and architecture using Jira, Confluence and preparing code using Github feature, develop, and master branches
- Participate in the incident commander rotation for the whole WHOOP ecosystem and also the release process including getting the app built, managing build variants, signing, sending and testing through Firebase, and submitting to the Play Store
- Extensive experience building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android apps in a professional environment
- Expert knowledge of Android application structure and components as well as lifecycle and Android Design Guidelines
Requirements
- You are experienced working with consumer-facing apps that control BLE devices.
- Expert knowledge of best practices for concurrency and multithreading, including Kotlin coroutines and Flow
- Strong experience with Jetpack Compose and modern declarative Android UI
- Experience with Kotlin and frameworks such as Koin, Android Jetpack libraries (including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation), Room database, and Retrofit / OkHttp
- Experience designing modular architecture and dependency boundaries in a large multi-module Gradle codebase, including patterns such as MVI and MVVM
- Excellent knowledge of Android Studio, Gradle and CI systems
- Experience debugging and diagnosing issues across complex or distributed systems such as firmware, mobile, and backend
- Experience using Git to organize feature work
- Experience communicating with a RESTful backend
- The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
Compensation
- WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify https://www.e-verify.gov/to determine employment eligibilityThe WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering co
Benefits
- Create and own systems that aid in analyzing connectivity health of our members, and use that telemetry to set team priorities
- Manage a prioritized backlog centered on reducing technical debt, improving code health, and enhancing module testability
- Elevate engineering quality through rigorous code reviews, expanded test coverage, and refined architectural design practices
Company info
- At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance.
- 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.
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