Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - TrainingPeaks

Company Information

We are musicians, athletes, coaches and teachers who truly believe in our mission to help people achieve their best. Our software platforms connect performers, instructors and creators enabling them to publish, teach and train using the principles of deliberate practice.  

You may know us as TrainingPeaks, MakeMusic, TrainHeroic and Alfred Music. All these brands are under the Peaksware umbrella. TrainingPeaks develops software for coaches and athletes to track, analyze and plan endurance training. TrainHeroic develops software solutions for the strength and conditioning needs of coaches and athletes. MakeMusic develops software to transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. Alfred Music creates and publishes educational music to help teachers, students, professionals and hobbyists experience the joy of making music. 

We would love to have you join our ever-growing team! All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of gender, race, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical disability, religion, or length of time spent unemployed.

General Summary

Join TrainingPeaks as a Senior Software Engineer on our Workout Data team and help build the future of endurance training.

At TrainingPeaks, we empower athletes and coaches to reach their goals through data-driven performance tools. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the technical foundation of those tools. You’ll take ownership of critical systems that process, store, and serve the workout data that drives our platform, from concept to deployment and beyond.

You’ll dive into a dynamic stack, building scalable services, evolving APIs, and transforming modern architectures. You’ll help ensure our platform performs reliably at scale, supporting the world's best endurance athletes and their coaches.

This isn’t a role where you’ll be handed specs and left in a silo. You’ll be part of architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and bring new ideas to the table. You’ll be encouraged to experiment, grow your skills, and lead meaningful improvements to our tech and our team. If you're passionate about clean code, system performance, and real-world impact, we want to hear from you.

You thrive on collaboration, continuous learning, and solving tough problems. You value craft, care deeply about product quality, and are motivated by the knowledge that your work helps real people achieve peak performance.

You will sit directly with the Engineering Team and report to the Manager, Engineering. 

Core Functions: 

• Build features that athletes and coaches love. Regularly ship thoughtful, user-focused functionality that evolves with our growing customer base and raises the bar for performance.
• Tackle complex technical challenges to ensure our systems stay fast, reliable, and resilient.
• Design and implement backend and frontend systems that elevate team productivity, code quality, and long-term maintainability.
• Craft stable, scalable, and well-documented APIs that power our products and support our internal and external development partners.
• Help elevate the skills of your teammates by coaching junior engineers and sharing your expertise in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Contribute to a culture of clean, performant, and secure code through collaborative reviews and continuous improvement.
• Participate in our on-call rotation (~1 week per quarter) to keep our platform running smoothly and reliably.
• Help foster open communication, promote best practices, and explore emerging technologies to keep our team sharp and forward-thinking.

Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Experience developing in an Object Oriented programming language such as Java or C#.
• Experience working with Relational Database Systems such as SQL Server or Postgress SQL.
  Experience designing and building Restful API’s
• 5+ years of experience working on challenging problems in complex applications *dependent upon level
• Experience addressing problems of scale
• Experience with CI/CD processes and tools such as TeamCity, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience refactoring applications and seeing architectural changes through from design to completion
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud technologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement of yourself and your team
• Degrees are not required and we value all forms of continued education including traditional four-year degrees, post-graduate degrees, associates degrees, bootcamps, online training, professional certifications, self-teaching and more.