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Senior Backend Software Engineer | Challenges & Gamifications

Gympass
Portugal (Remote), PortugalRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jul 2025

About the role

<p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Your wellbeing matters. Join a company that cares.</strong></p> <p><span><strong>GET TO KNOW US</strong></span></p> <p><span>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. <br/><br/><strong>*Big news: Gympass is now Wellhub! </strong><br/>We are thrilled to announce our rebranding as Wellhub, marking a significant milestone in our journey. This transformation reflects our evolution from a “pass for gyms” to a comprehensive employee wellbeing solution. With our refreshed identity, we are poised to embark on an exciting new chapter of growth and expansion. We are elevating our offerings, including a completely new app experience and an expanded network of wellbeing partners. Learn more about it <a href="https://gympass.com/en-us/blog/gympass-news/gympass-rebrands-to-wellhub/" target="_blank">here.</a> <br/><br/></span><span><strong>THE OPPORTUNITY</strong></span></p> <p><span>We are hiring a <strong>Senior Backend Software Engineer</strong> to our CODE team, <strong>Challenges &amp; Gamification Squad</strong> team in <strong>Portugal</strong>! </span></p> <p>CODE is an acronym for Consumer Digital Experience, which means we're in charge of the experience and services that will guide people in their wellbeing journey. Our main goal in CODE is to make every company, a wellness company. From knowing about Wellhub, and getting access to exclusive benefits, to using our vast partner's network, it is in the end-user experience. </p> <p>CODE teams are responsible for developing and maintaining Wellhub's App, frontend and  backend services, and Design System and work closely with product, UX, and data teams to create an excellent experience for the users of our platform.</p> <p>Our mission as Challenges &amp; Gamefication Squad is to make users have more fun using Wellhub Services. So, we are creating new products to engage the users. Also, we are working closely with health data platforms (like AppleHealth and Google Health) to have a simple way to access and share user health data across the Wellhub ecosystem.</p> <h1><span><strong>YOUR IMPACT</strong></span></h1> <p><span>As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a passionate developer who is driven by getting things done in high quality and timely. You will have plenty of opportunities to take part in and/or lead architectural decisions, suggest improvements and interact with the product team and other business stakeholders in a highly collaborative, agile environment.</span></p> <p><span>You will be accountable for your decisions and possess a high level of ownership over the products you are delivering. You must be seen as one of the technical references by your team and take ownership of some critical features, perform pull-requests reviews, actively take part in all the architectural decisions of the squad, and mentor less experienced developers.</span></p> <p><span>You are a data-driven person who asks for data to support product decisions before blindly implementing things. You simplify the scope of what you are constantly developing. You are bold and innovative.</span></p> <p><span>You are eager to learn and share knowledge and improve your toolset of technical, business continuity, and communication skills to provide more and more impact to the company.</span></p> <p><span>As a Senior Software Engineer, you:</span></p> <ul> <li><span>Driven to deliver timely, high-quality work. Perform insightful pull-request reviews and build reusable code for future use</span></li> <li><span>Be data-driven and participate in and/or lead architectural decisions, share improvement opportunities, bring innovation to the table, and make sure design docs are up to date</span></li> <li><span>Interact with the product team and stakeholders to impact the business</span></li> <li><span>Ensure successful deliveries and promote the long-term technical health of our journeys</span></li> <li><span>Take ownership of critical features, accountable and possess a high level of ownership by following up engineering and product KPIs</span></li> <li><span>Ensure a high bar on code quality standards, making sure devs are proud of their work</span></li> <li><span>Technical reference for your team, spread development best practices such as code review, pair programming, TDD. Eager to learn and to share knowledge</span></li> <li><span>Mentor less experienced developers</span></li> <li><span>Take part in incident resolution and troubleshooting in the production environment</span><

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