Whoop
Software Engineering Manager, Device Experience
Boston, MA · Full-time
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The bottom of this range ($150,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $151,570. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $185,765 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer and Information Systems Managers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Its work will help members set up and connect a device, understand its status, adjust settings, complete updates, resolve common issues, and navigate the device lifecycle with confidence.
- This role combines technical leadership with people management.
- That includes clear expectations, regular feedback, thoughtful coaching, and a culture of accountability, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and mentor a new team of application and backend engineers through hiring, onboarding, feedback, performance management, and career development.
- Define the team mission, ownership boundaries, technical direction, and operating model with Product, Design, Quality, and engineering leadership.
- Guide technical designs and architecture decisions while establishing strong practices for development, testing, release readiness, observability, privacy, security, and operational ownership.
- Establish a clear planning and delivery cadence that makes scope, dependencies, tradeoffs, progress, and risk visible to partners and leaders.
- Use member behavior, support signals, product analytics, reliability data, and quality metrics to guide priorities and coordinate delivery across Connectivity, Firmware, Hardware, Client Platform, Membership Services, Analytics, and other partner teams.
- WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.
- WHOOP is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to build and lead a new Device Experience Software team.
- This application and backend team will own the member-facing screens and supporting services used to manage the WHOOP device experience in the app.
- You will establish the team charter, hire and develop engineers, guide architecture across the app and backend, and create a dependable delivery cadence.
- You will work closely with Product, Design, and Quality and coordinate with mobile, connectivity, firmware, hardware, analytics, and Membership Services teams to deliver coherent experiences across the hardware and software boundary.
Requirements
- A strong technical foundation in consumer application development and backend systems, with experience shipping mobile products and operating services and APIs in production.
- Strong communication and product judgment, including the ability to explain technical decisions clearly and simplify complex hardware or system behavior for members.
- The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
- While most offers will typically fall toward the starting point of the range, total compensation will depend on the candidate's specific qualifications, expertise, and alignment with the role's requirements.
- Software development experience followed by an engineering management or team lead role, with responsibility for hiring, mentorship, feedback, performance management, and career development.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical planning and iterative delivery in ambiguous environments while maintaining quality and reliability.
- Experience aligning cross-functional partners on scope, priorities, dependencies, release plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Interest in wearable technology and enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving product environment.
- Experience building a new team, product area, or engineering charter from the ground up.
- Developing software for connected devices, wearables, Bluetooth products, consumer electronics, or other systems that span hardware and software.
- Has led a full-stack product team that owns application interfaces, backend services, and operational outcomes together.
- Comfort designing device setup, pairing, connectivity, firmware update, settings, diagnostics, or support workflows.
- Ability to work closely with firmware, embedded software, hardware, product design, quality, analytics, or customer support teams.
- This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
Compensation
- The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.
Benefits
- Own the end-to-end software experience for managing a WHOOP device in the app, including the member-facing screens, backend services, APIs, and production health that support it.
- Foster a culture of high standards, direct feedback, accountability, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
Company info
- At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock and inspire performance for life.
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Whoop's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.