Software Engineer - I [Backend Developer]

Who we are  

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people. Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!  

Your role 

As a Software Engineer –I you’ll be a part of a Mindbody engineering team, you’ll pursue continuous improvement to help Mindbody achieve its mission: Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else. 

You’ll likely spend time working on 

• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle. 

• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome. 

• Identifies opportunities for improving system reliability, security, and stability then working with product owners to prepare backlog items for the team. 

• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive unit tests. 

• Contributes to technical documentation. 

• Implements best practices based on companywide policies and standards. 

• Occasional on-call rotation duty to respond to after-hours system incidents. 

• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process. 

• Communicates successfully with large teams and many personalities. 

• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers. 

• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful releases. 

• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase. 

• Ability to guide and delegate work to junior engineers. 

• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations. 

• Works effectively with multiple projects and departments. 

• All other duties as assigned. 

About the right team member  

At Mindbody, we value team members who are curious, practical, and-openminded, and who care about our product, their teammates, and their own personal growth. We’re faced with an interesting set of technical challenges, and we believe in giving our engineers the freedom to create solutions based on their unique perspective.   

Much of our team comes from non-traditional computing backgrounds. In bringing together diverse voices, we’ll build a better product, and a better company. We care less about which languages or frameworks you know, and more that you’re excited to produce high-quality code and be consciously evolving. Our engineers work in cross-functional, collaborative teams focused on impact. We work very closely with our brilliant product team to deliver a world-class user experience, and ultimately to empower our users to create and grow successful businesses.  

You’ll thrive in this role with experience in  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science  

• 1-2 years of hands-on experience with web, mobile, or large-scale enterprise product development 

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, third-party integrations, and Next.js (a plus) 

• Understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and DevOps principles 

• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and design patterns 

• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, SQL/NoSQL databases, and AWS services (EKS, EC2, DynamoDB, etc.) 

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable, secure web applications. 

• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from design to deployment 

• Lead technical initiatives, providing guidance to junior team members and mentoring peers 

• Identify and implement best practices, ensuring reliability, security, and stability 

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to remove obstacles and achieve sprint goals 

• Perform code reviews to maintain a high-quality codebase and suggest improvements 

• Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends 

• Handle occasional on-call duties to resolve system incidents, ensuring minimal impact 

• Opportunities for professional growth and skill enhancement 

• A chance to work on impactful projects in the wellness tech space 

• Supportive mentors and a dynamic team environment 

• Exposure to the latest technologies and engineering practices 

Technologies you’ll be working with   

While we value experience with these technologies, we’re primarily looking for team members with strong technical skills and the ability to quicky pick up new tools and frameworks  

• C#, ASP, .NET, .NET Core, MVC, ADO/ADO.NET, LINQ, REACT, Ruby on Rails