Senior Android Engineer (AI Platform)

Job Description

At WHOOP, we’re on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. WHOOP empowers members (Olympians, Professional Athletes, Fitness Enthusiasts, etc) to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. We are looking to add highly motivated and skilled engineers to our team to help us take our proven system to new heights. 

The AI Platform team at WHOOP is responsible for building the foundation that enables scalable, responsible, and accessible use of Generative AI across our products. We focus on developing reusable infrastructure, services, and tools that empower product and software teams to experiment with, integrate, and ship GenAI-powered features efficiently and safely. By abstracting the complexities of large language models (LLMs) and enabling deliverability of personalized member insights, our platform accelerates innovation and ensures consistent, high-quality user experiences.

As a Senior Android Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will play a key role in designing the mechanism to deliver personalized insights and coaching throughout our products. This role combines a platform mindset with engineering excellence, helping WHOOP unlock the full potential of Generative AI—across the Core product, coaching, insights, and beyond.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team with a product manager, designers, Android engineers, and backend engineers to ideate, plan, and implement new features
• Build exciting new features for the Android app using the latest Android frameworks
• Help define and improve best practices for the entire Android team
• Mentor other members of the Android team 
• Communicate effectively with immediate and external team members
• Stay up to date with the latest Android frameworks and best practices

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Product minded engineer with empathy for the customer experience
• Possess a strong willingness to learn and grow rapidly across Android and external systems
• Experience in building, testing, debugging, and delivering native Android apps in a professional environment
• Knowledge of Kotlin and frameworks such as Coroutines, Android Jetpack libraries (including ViewModel, Flows, and Navigation), Room database, and retrofit / okhttp.
• Experience using Git to organize feature work
• Expert knowledge of Android application structure and components as well as lifecycle and Android Design Guidelines
• Well-versed in communicating with a RESTful backend
• Experience using best-practice mobile architecture and modular design, including patterns such as MVVM
• Expert knowledge of Android application structure and components as well as lifecycle and Android Design Guidelines

Learn more about our Software Org and how to be successful in your engineering career at WHOOP via our Career Framework.

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.

Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! 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. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.

WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.  It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.