Senior Staff Software Engineer, Zwift
$294.3k
2+ days a week in office (Long Beach, CA)
Virtual training for running and cycling
Be an early applicant
Virtual training for running and cycling
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$294.3k
2+ days a week in office (Long Beach, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Zwift is on a mission to make more People, more Active, more Often.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or related field, plus five (5) years of post-baccalaureate experience as a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Systems Analyst or in a related position
- Experience must include Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), backend services, testing software, architectural design, cost management, building CI/CD pipelines, and Java Application servers
What the job involves
- Solve complex challenges for Zwift’s platform architecture related to salability, reliability and availability
- Design and implement architecture to allow for increased numbers of concurrent users
- Improve observability of backend systems using industry knowledge on logging, metrics, and tracing to average recovery times
- Analyze architecture and development of services and devise solutions for improving inefficiencies and inconsistencies in results
- Develop solutions for modifying services to support new case uses
- Oversee engineering teams to ensure best practices are utilized in projects
- Utilize event sourcing to identify and resolve bugs at a reduced rate
- Plan, design, and oversee teams in building and maintaining new services for Zwift’s fitness platform
- Identify gaps in engineering knowledge, create customized training plans to address the gaps, and oversee application of training
- Develop long term engineering goals
- Participate in design phases of various proprietary management solutions and future use cases
Our take
Zwift was started to break two preconceptions surrounding indoor training. One: it's boring and two: indoor trainers are expensive.
Zwift provides a virtual world that gamifies indoor training and connects cyclists and runners together on an online multiplayer community. Users have access to 1000's of personalised workouts, all of which only require an in-expensive indoor trainer and monthly subscription.
Zwift are continuously adding content to their virtual world and are aiming to expand into the world of competitive cycling. They even started a Zwift academy Tri-team consisting of eight athletes using Zwift to train then compete at the Ironman World Championship in Kona.
The company's biggest competition is arguably fitness behemoth, Peloton. However, while Zwift prides itself on users’ ability to organize group rides and runs and workouts, classes are not in the offing.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Sep 2020
$450m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Dec 2018
$120m
SERIES B
Total funding: $614.6m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage
- Fitness Equipment Allowance
- Well-Being Perks + Benefits
- Modern Family Support + Paid Parental Leave
- Competitive Time Off
- Fitness Industry Discounts
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Downtown Core, Long Beach, CA
Leadership
Jon Mayfield
(Co-Founder & Head of Product)Worked for 12 years as a senior programmer at various video game companies. Joined Applied Minds as a software engineer then left to start Zwift.
Eric Min
(Co-Founder & CEO/Chairman)9 years as a VP at JP Morgan. Previously co-founded and ran Sakonnet Technology for 15 years.
Scott Barger
(Co-Founder & Advisor)Previously founded and ran two supply-chain solutions companies in the automotive and healthcare industries.
Alarik Myrin
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and co-founder of Sakonnent Technologies for 16 years.
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