Principal Backend Engineer

What this role involves

WeightWatchers seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale backend services powering the member experience platform. The role involves owning technical design of critical services like member identity, food databases, and personalization, while ensuring performance, reliability, and operational excellence. The engineer will also mentor others and define standards for service contracts and event-driven architecture.

Skills this posting asks for

• backend development
• apis
• microservices
• event-driven architecture
• data stores
• caching
• observability
• slis/slos
• circuit breaking
• retry patterns
• security compliance
• performance engineering
• scalability

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

WeightWatchers is a global digital health company.  WeightWatchers is a global digital health company and the world’s #1 doctor-recommended, clinically studied behavioral weight health program. For sixty years, we…