Backend Tech Lead | Talent Pool

Wellhub (formerly Gympass) is a corporate wellness platform that connects employees to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep, all included in one subscription designed to cost less than each individual partner. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in NYC, we have a growing global team in 11 countries. At Wellhub, you have the opportunity to build a career in a high-growth tech company that places wellbeing at the foundation of its culture, and contribute to making every company a wellness company.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you a Tech Lead looking to join our Technology and Product team in Brazil? If you don’t see the right job for you, you can apply to this Talent Pool! By submitting your application here, you will open the door to a potential future career with us.

As a Tech Lead you will be responsible for overseeing a team of software engineers ensuring the pace and quality of its technical deliveries. You must be seen as a technical reference by your team and should expect to code some key features, perform pull requests reviews, and actively take part in all the architectural decisions of the squad. You will collaborate closely with the Product Manager to evaluate the feasibility of tasks, choose the best strategy for assigning and splitting user stories and prioritize engineering issues and technical debts.

In addition, you're expected to perform management tasks such as mentoring, facilitating, and conducting regular one-on-ones with the members of your team, making sure that they are constantly challenged, recognized, engaged, and that they keep improving their technical skills over time. You should assess their performance regularly and draw the best plan for their career. In short, you are accountable for what the squad delivers in both quality and quantity aspects. The squad outcome is your outcome.

• Participate in the development of some of the most critical and challenging services in our ecosystem, seeking to build long-term and sustainable solutions.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop, often in pair programming, parts of the system (expected around 50%).
• Account for systems reliability, scalability, SLA and SLO.
• Manage technical debts and engineering backlog.
• Support existing systems looking to enhance functionality, increase scale, and transform in new ways to meet our product demands.
• Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity.
• Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in production.
• Maintain the project technical vision up to date and complete for everyone.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale.

WHO YOU ARE

• An engineer with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• Experienced in managing and mentoring multiple multidisciplinary teams of software engineers.
• Experienced in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications.
• Experienced in designing and developing complex modern web applications.
• Experienced in Cloud-based architectures (AWS / GCP).
• Experienced in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, define payloads and follow the HTTP best practices.
• Experienced in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Experience dealing with event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ, KAFKA, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Versed in concepts such as DDD, SOLID, Design Patterns distributed systems and architecture.
• Experienced in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.). Golang will be considered a plus.
• Communication skills to work with multidisciplinary teams located in several countries with different cultures.
• You need to be able to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English.

We're a wellness company that is committed to the health and wellbeing of our employees. Our flexible program allows you to customize your benefits, according to your needs!

Our benefits include:

WELLNESS: Health, dental, and life insurance.

FLEXIBLE WORK: Choose when and where you work. For most, this will be a hybrid office/remote structure but can vary depending on the needs of the role and employee preferences.

FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: Wellhubbers and their leaders can make the best decisions for their scope.

WELLHUB: Access onsite gyms and fitness studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental health support, and more.

PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is that our employees take time away from work to recharge.

PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents and extended maternity leave.

CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth.

CULTURE: An exciting and supportive atmosphere with ambitious people from around the world!

We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive space where everyone knows they belong.

Wellhub is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.