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.
At Mindbody, Core Engineering builds and evolves the foundational systems that help our products run reliably at scale. In this staff role, you’ll bring clarity to complex technical problems, guide architecture, and strengthen how we design, deliver, and operate the backend services that power real-world experiences.
- Lead cross-team technical execution, aligning architecture and delivery across multiple squads and core domains
- Design and evolve microservices patterns that improve reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Drive cloud and deployment improvements across AWS, Mindbody’s cloud platform, and our containerized deployment environment
- Partner with engineering and product leaders to turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans and milestones
- Establish and socialize standards for service design, APIs, and relational data modeling (SQL)
- Strengthen monitoring and operational visibility using New Relic and Kibana, turning insights into durable system improvements
- Mentor and unblock engineers through design reviews, pairing, and practical guidance
- Reduce technical risk and complexity while balancing near-term delivery with long-term architecture health
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leading technical direction across teams through architecture proposals and design reviews
- Experience building and operating microservices in production environments with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability
- Hands-on experience with AWS and containerized deployment environments
- Working knowledge of monitoring and logging practices using New Relic and Kibana
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational data modeling for high-integrity systems
- Comfort working across a multi-language backend ecosystem (ASP.NET, Python, C#, Ruby)
- Ability to collaborate effectively with web teams and front-end technologies (Next.js, React)
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners
- Cloud and infrastructure: AWS, EKS, EC2, ElastiCache, SNS, SQS
- Monitoring and logging: New Relic, Kibana
- Datastores: SQL and relational data modeling
- Languages and frameworks: .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, Python, Next.js, React, Ruby (etc..)
It is Playlist's intent to pay all Team Members competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair and equitable. The goal of Playlist's compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees, and encourage Team Members to stay with our organization. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.The base salary range for this position in the United States is $170,000 to $250,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
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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