Sr. Backend Engineer, Noom
Consumer-led digital health company
Job no longer available
Consumer-led digital health company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Noom's mission is to help people everywhere lead healthier lives through behavior change.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4+ years of experience building modern REST APIs using Java, Python, Go, or a similar language
- You possess deep, strategic knowledge of server-side programming, with a focus on performance and scale
- You have built complex backend systems used by a team of 40-50 engineers
- You possess excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- You have a proven track record of building complex technology and guiding less senior members of the team to create code that is well-organized, easy to read and maintain, and optimized for its intended purpose
Desirable
- Having knowledge of Lambda/serverless functions and Docker containerization
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our API team and help us build the foundation that underpins everything we do at Noom
- Working on problems that affect the lives of real people. Our users depend on us to make positive changes to their health and their lives
- Basing your work on scientifically-proven, peer-reviewed methodologies that are designed by medical professionals
- Collaborating with a team both onsite and offsite -- about 50% of our engineering team is fully remote; we worry about results, not time spent in seats
Our take
Noom is a digital health app that combines psychology, technology, and human coaching to help customers with their personal health and wellness goals through long-term behavioral change. While it started with weight management, it is working to expand its platform to help people with chronic and non-chronic conditions, such as stress and anxiety, hypertension, and diabetes.
Its customer base has been bolstered by a spiked interest in digital fitness in recent years. Its signature product, Noom Weight, is a diet alternative that competes with giants such as Weight Watchers as well as tech-enabled newer entrants that offer everything from meal deliveries to calorie-counting systems, many of which have also boomed.
Weight management is a $250 billion global business, but to Noom that's just a starter market. Where Noom's real potential lies, the company believes, is in becoming a 'habit-change' platform. The company's first feature beyond weight management, Noom Mood, launched in 2021 and aims to tackle stress and anxiety. Its plan is to tackle myriad aspects of wellness and human behavior, and take on one market after another in the process.
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Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2021
$540m
May 2019
$58m
Total funding: $659.1m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Learning & professional growth opportunities; we’ll cover the cost of books, courses, conferences… you name it!
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Daily gourmet meals prepared by our onsite chefs
- Weekly yoga classes
- Wellness budget
- Annual technology upgrade allowance
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Saeju Jeong
(CEO)Bachelor of Engineering from Hongik University, founder at BuyHard Productions, before co-founding Noom in 2006. Member of the Global Innovators Community at World Economic Forum.
Artem Petakov
(President)Background in Software Engineering with stints at Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Served as co-CEO of Noom until 2015, and is now President.
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