Noomgrowth

Noomgrowth

Lead Backend Engineer

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Sponsorship not specified$179k-$211kDetected 27 days ago
JavaKotlinAgentic AILeadershipCommunicationMentoringAdaptabilityMicrosoft Teams

About the role

  • This is an IC-first role: 80% engineering, 20% managing others.
  • Provide day-to-day technical guidance and mentorship to offshore direct reports
  • Help shape and continuously improve how the Engineering team operates

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver backend engineering work across Noom's AI and Agentic initiatives
  • Architect and implement scalable backend systems using Java and/or Kotlin that support Noom's enterprise client base
  • In this role, you'll own significant backend engineering scope, driving key agentic AI engineering initiatives across the business while providing hands-on technical leadership to a small team of engineers.
  • You'll work closely with other engineering leaders in the org to define scope, optimize how we support the business, and lead GenAI projects that extend what we're already building.
  • Investment in your future. A 401(k) with company match to help you build long-term financial security.
  • Demonstrated experience as a lead-level IC and comfortable owning significant technical scope while guiding others
  • Strong ability to collaborate cross-functionally to define technical scope and deliver against business priorities

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong command of Java, Kotlin, or other languages

Compensation

  • Investment in your future. A 401(k) with company match to help you build long-term financial security.

Benefits

  • We're a consumer-led digital health company, connecting people to content, coaching, community, and clinicians, to build lasting habits and live healthier lives.
  • Our Engineering team builds the technology that powers Noom's mission, from consumer-facing health products to the B2B infrastructure that enables enterprise partnerships at scale.
  • Within our B2B focus area, we move fast, build with purpose, and tackle complex backend challenges that directly shape how Noom serves health plans and employers.

Company info

  • we empower our people to think big, act boldly, and take pride in their contributions to shaping the future of health.
  • We've been named one of the Best Places to Work by Inc., Fortune, Glassdoor, and Quartz-including honors for technology and diversity.
  • Join us in shaping the future of health.
  • You'll be part of a passionate, mission-driven team working to make the world a healthier place-one habit at a time.
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  • Please ignore any messaging or communication from other domains (e.g. @noom.team).
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  • Noom will never ask you for personal payment, require you to purchase equipment, conduct an interview process or messaging exchange via Microsoft Teams, or extend a job offer without the completion of a multi-step interview process featuring a combination of phone, Zoom, and in-person interviews, as well as references.
  • Time to truly recharge. Paid holidays, generous time off, Summer Fridays, and a company-wide Summer Break week so the whole team can unplug together.

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