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Staff Backend Engineer

TonalSan Francisco, California, United StatesRemote, Onsite

Who We Are


Tonal is the smartest home gym and personal trainer. It has completely revolutionized the way people work out at home, with its sleek design and advanced A.I. technology. We’ve united a diverse team of experts and decades of research to reinvent strength training, making it more efficient, more effective and more engaging. With this in mind, we want to bring that same innovative approach to the workplace. At Tonal, we continue our shift of emphasis by growing our instrumental team. We collectively weave our knowledge and creativity, as we redefine the future of fitness.

We are passionate about building products that transform lives, and building teams that transform the status quo. Together, we can be our strongest.  

Overview


Tonal is looking for a passionate backend developer to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design, and play a critical role in building the platform that powers the world’s most intelligent personal trainer. You will be given the opportunity to solve challenging problems in the development of software for a unique consumer fitness product. You are entrepreneurial, thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, and execute at an A-level. Like us, you value clean, fast, high-performing, and maintainable software.

What You Will Do


  • Own the development of major software projects for our backend services. These services drive everything in our platform from personalized workout recommendations to dynamic media generation and distribution, and analytics based on the largest and most advanced fitness data set in the world
  • Collaborate with our tightly integrated software, hardware and content teams to continually evolve a unique, consumer-oriented fitness product 
  • Work closely with product team to clarify requirements and develop designs for new features
  • Implement, test, deploy and monitor software for our cloud-based backend microservices 
  • Write and review clean, secure and testable code with a focus on maintainability, scalability and performance
  • Develop and support cloud-based big data pipelines 
  • Use analytics to understand product behavior and motivate data-driven decisions 
  • Mentor and share your broad knowledge with more junior engineers

Who You Are


  • A self-driven backend engineer, with experience owning software projects end-to-end and a desire to work in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.
  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Track record of solving problems end-to-end with little-to-no oversight
  • Extensive experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and RESTful APIs
  • Expertise in server-side software development in Golang (or other languages, e.g. Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python)
  • Strong understanding of database design and modeling (e.g., PostgreSQL)
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to work collaboratively and cohesively in a cross-functional team
  • Experience with data-intensive applications, big data pipelines and analytics, having used tools such as Snowflake, DataBricks, Amplitude and Looker

Extra Credit


  • Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, ArgoCD
  • Experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Airflow
  • Experience with Android development, Flutter, Kotlin
  • Experience with Swift/SwiftUIExperience working with remote teams
  • Experience integrating with Stripe, OneSignal
  • Interest in the fitness industry

The range of base salary for the position is between $155,000 - $199,000 USD plus equity and benefits. We take into consideration an individual’s background, experience, and location in determining their salary. This role is also eligible for health insurance, retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and other additional benefits.At Tonal, we believe that the unique and varied lived experiences of our teammates contribute to our overall strength.

We don’t just appreciate differences, we celebrate them, and we always seek people that represent a wide variety of backgrounds. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and designing employee experiences that contribute to your growth as much as you do to ours. If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for (even if you don’t check every single box), send us your application. We would love to hear from you!Tonal is committed to meeting the diverse needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner that is consistent with the principles of independence, dignity, integration, and equality of opportunity.

Should you have any accommodation requests, please reach out to us via our confidential email, accessibility@tonal.com. All requests will be addressed and responded to in accordance with Tonal’s Accessibility Policy and local legislation.Apply for this job

Life at Tonal

At Tonal, we are applying our collective knowledge and creativity to reimagine fitness. We know firsthand that too many hurdles stand between each of us and our fitness goals. Drawing on decades of research and a diverse team of experts, we are creating a fresh approach to fitness. Whether you are an elite athlete or a weekend warrior, Tonal is building nothing less than what fitness today should be. Tonal is a well-funded and fast growing startup that strives to build a family-like culture of high performers. It's the type of place where everyone strives to be the best version of themselves, and everyone knows that can't happen unless we're all having fun working on something that has meaning to us. If youre passionate about both a healthy lifestyle and technology, the Tonal family is the place for you. We know firsthand how challenging fitness can be, and we also know that with the right approach and the right science, fitness can be achieved by anyone. Whether it's a professional athlete, or a busy mother, we are about delivering excellent workouts that fit their lives, needs, and aspirations. Lead by repeat entrepreneurs, we have built a diverse team of folks, each at the top of their game. If youre the best at what you do, and want to be around people just like you, come join us.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Innovative Approach to Fitness Industry2. Passionate about Building Products that Transform Lives, Teams, and Growth3. Celebrating Differences and Adding New Perspectinas to the Team4. Committed to Meeting the Diverse Needs of People with Disabilities in a Timely Manner5. Designing Employee Experiences for Mutual Growth6. Emphasis on Health and Fitness7. Commitment to Professional Development and Continuous Learning8. Diverse Team of Experts and Decades of Research
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