Sr Software Engineer
Mindbody · United States
- Senior
- Full-time
- $156,000 – $208,000
- Posted 2026-09-16
- Confirmed live on 25 September 2026
Job description
At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.
Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology.
Your role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a crucial leadership role in building scalable systems for the Mindbody ecosystem. You’ll exercise autonomy in decision-making, take ownership of large technical projects, and provide leadership within your team and across engineering. You proactively identify and solve challenges your squad is facing, often leading medium-to-large features and cross-team efforts. You act as a multiplier for your team, mentoring engineers, sharing best practices, and contributing to a culture of growth and learning. 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
• Leading discussions with Product, Design, and QA to iterate on the design, implementation and deployment of our product.
• Build, maintain, and own backend systems and applications.
• Seeking different perspectives and soliciting honest feedback
• Practice engineering best practices (e.g., automated testing, code reviews, proper monitoring) while guiding others on their adoption, and contributing thoughtful, timely feedback during peer reviews.
• Mentoring and leading through code reviews, teaching best practices, and conducting technical interviews for engineers and managers.
• Leading retrospectives and incident postmortems for your squad.
• Helping attract and retain talent by building community inside and outside the organization
• Care about our studio partners and want to help them grow their business
• Take delight in delighting our users.
About the right team member
You love to design robust and easy to use APIs and services taking ownership of technical decisions. You’re capable of leading complex technical projects with high levels of uncertainty, scale, and interdependencies—creating timelines, delegating tasks, and ensuring smooth launches. You learn quickly and ramp up on new systems, languages, or frameworks with minimal guidance. You’re not afraid to ask questions early and often in unfamiliar territory. You are a sought-after contributor in code reviews, helping elevate code quality through timely and constructive feedback. You are an expert in one or more technical areas and are recognized within your team as a trusted source of insights and mentorship.
At Playlist we value people who are intellectually curious, who are pragmatic not dogmatic, and people who care about our product, their teammates, and their own personal growth. We are faced with an interesting set of technical challenges, and we believe in giving our engineers the autonomy to go and solve them. Much of our team comes from non-traditional computing backgrounds; we know that by bringing together a diverse set of voices we’ll be able to build a better product, and a better company. We care less about what languages or frameworks you know, and care more that you are excited to produce high-quality code and be constantly learning. Our engineers work in cross-functional teams that are focused on impact, and movement between teams is encouraged. We work very closely with our brilliant product team to deliver a world class user experience, and ultimately to empower our users to live their fullest, healthiest lives.
You'll thrive in this role with experience in
• 8+ years' experience in programming large-scale SaaS products.
• Experience building backend services with an object-oriented language such as C# or Java.
• Experience designing and architecting backend services.
• Experience Designing and working with Microservice architecture.
• Experience with monitoring systems such as New Relic or Kibana.
• Familiarity with SDLC and programming design patterns, and Agile methodology.
• Experience reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks.
• Detail-oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude.
• Ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing.
Nice to have
• Experience building or operating payment flows end to end — authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, and
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