iOS Engineer, WHOOP
Growth & AI Experiences
$125-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
Wearable health and fitness devices
Open for applications
Wearable health and fitness devices
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$125-170k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock human performance and Healthspan.
Role
Who you are
- Product-minded engineer with empathy for the member experience
- 2–4 years of professional experience building, testing, debugging, and shipping native iOS apps
- Strong proficiency in Swift and experience with modern iOS architecture and lifecycle management
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and networking best practices
- Knowledge of best-practice architecture and modular design patterns, such as MVVM
- Experience using Git and version control workflows
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, data-driven environment
- Team player who thrives on continuous learning and direct feedback
- Strong commitment to embracing and leveraging AI tools in day-to-day tasks, ensuring AI-assisted work aligns with the same high-quality standards as personal contributions
- 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
What the job involves
- WHOOP is hiring an iOS Engineer II to join one of our high-impact product teams: AI Experiences or Growth
- You’ll work on features that scale our systems and improve reliability, remove friction from user experiences, or help members improve their physical, emotional, and hormonal health through clinical-grade insights
- Whether building shared frameworks, iterating on growth experiments, or shipping health-driven features, you'll deliver work that directly impacts our members' lives
- You’ll collaborate across functions, write well-architected code, and contribute to a platform that is improving health outcomes and unlocking human potential at scale
- Work on a cross-functional team that collaborates with data science, product, and backend engineering
- Develop and maintain native iOS product features in Swift and integrate with RESTful backend services
- Contribute to feature ideation, planning, design, and development
- Document architecture and new features to support long-term maintainability
- Analyze metrics and member feedback to uncover bugs and opportunities to improve app stability and engagement
- Participate in the release pipeline, including app building, signing, testing (e.g., via Firebase), and App Store submission
- Use tools like Jira, Confluence, and GitHub to organize and communicate work
Our take
WHOOP develops wearable health-tracking devices designed to help athletes optimise their performance. Its technology continuously monitors recovery, sleep, and training hours to fine-tune both individual and team performance. Unlike competitors that primarily track exercise data, WHOOP's holistic approach includes metrics like heart rate variability, which can influence more effective and healthier exercise routines.
By focusing on a subscription model that includes the cost of the physical device, WHOOP differentiates itself from competitors that charge a higher one-time fee for their products. This model provides ongoing value and encourages users to stay engaged with their health data.
WHOOP's comprehensive monitoring of strain and recovery has given it a competitive edge, even as other brands like Fitbit have incorporated similar features. Beyond sports performance, WHOOP has conducted extensive research on predicting premature births, aiming to integrate these findings into their app. This commitment to broader health applications demonstrates WHOOP's dedication to advancing wearable health technology.
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Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES F
Oct 2020
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $404.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible Vacation: WHOOP has a flexible vacation policy that allows you to unwind, laptop-free, when you need it most.
- Focus on Family: We offer 18 weeks paid parental leave, plus an additional 2 weeks to gradually return to work.
- Get Invested: In addition to a competitive base salary and 401k, you're eligible to receive stock options to share in the future of WHOOP.
- WHOOP +1: Everyone on the team gets a complimentary WHOOP membership—plus another membership to share with a loved one.
- Health Matters: Our competitive benefits package covers medical, dental, and vision, in addition to mental health services, life and disability insurance, and more.
- Find Your Fit: Full-time employees get $500 a year to spend on wellness in whatever way they see fit, from fitness classes and memberships, to recovery services.
- It Pays to Sleep: Our Sleep Performance Program incentivizes employees to get more sleep. Log an average sleep performance of 85% or higher for the month and get a $100 bonus.
- Location, Location, Location: You can’t beat the views from the rooftop of One Kenmore Square. Feel inspired daily as you work, enjoy free snacks and coffee, and collaborate in the heart of Boston.
Company HQ
West Fens, Boston, MA
Leadership
Will Ahmed
(Founder & CEO)After graduating from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Economics, Will went on to hold Summer Analyst roles at Allen & Company and Lindsay Goldberg before founding WHOOP in 2012.
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