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.
You’ll help keep assigned projects on track by aligning people, priorities, and resources to deliver key milestones. You’ll lead and develop a software engineering management team, strengthen coding and problem-solving capabilities, and help build a high-performing backend and core software organization for Mindbody. In this role, you’ll partner closely with design and business teams to bring useful, usable, and customer-centered product experiences to life
- Build and manage a talented backend development organization focused on delivering meaningful product features
- Lead, coach, and develop software engineering managers and technical team members
- Establish development metrics and regular processes for assessing performance and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Create consistent project management and software development processes that support high-quality delivery in rapid iterations
- Apply strong design, business, and technical judgment to accelerate releases while advancing long-term product goals
- Champion software development excellence, customer centricity, and continuous improvement across the organization
- Present and evangelize prototyped concepts to diverse audiences through both formal and informal presentations
- Facilitate cross-functional teams, contribute to short- and long-term planning, and help resolve challenges constructively
- 7+ years of hands-on experience as a web development engineer
- 7+ years of experience managing backend development teams
- 5+ years of experience managing and leading technical employees
- Experience developing products for global markets
- Experience working in a highly agile or Scrum environment
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, mentor, and develop strong software engineering teams
- Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across design, business, and technical teams
- A commitment to serving customers, evolving how work gets done, and creating useful, usable experiences
We value adaptability and problem-solving over specific tools. Mindbody is primarily a .NET and C# engineering organization running on AWS. Depending on your team and area of focus, you might work with:
- Backend: .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Python, Django, Ruby, and Rails
- Frontend and mobile: React, TypeScript, Next.js, Ember, and React Native
- Data: PostgreSQL on Aurora, SQL Server, Redis, and MongoDB
- Infrastructure and delivery: AWS, Kubernetes on EKS, Lambda, Pulumi, Docker, Helm, Flux, Azure DevOps, GitHub, LaunchDarkly, and New Relic
Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.
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Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.
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