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Gympass

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🧘 Wellness

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 $5.4M Venture Round on 2021-12

Wellness • B2B • SaaS

Gympass is a comprehensive corporate wellness platform that connects employees with a variety of fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep resources through flexible and cost-effective subscription plans. Offering access to a vast network of gyms, studios, virtual personal trainers, and wellness apps, Gympass is designed to enhance employee wellbeing and improve productivity, retention, and healthcare cost outcomes for businesses. By enabling companies to provide holistic wellness options, Gympass fosters healthier workplace environments and supports employees in maintaining balanced lifestyles both at work and at home.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and development of some of the most critical and technically complex services in our ecosystem, focusing on long-term, scalable, and sustainable solutions. • Define and evolve the technical vision for multiple teams, ensuring architectural consistency, system resilience, and alignment with product strategy. • Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, Data, etc.) to prioritize and deliver initiatives that drive business growth and improve user experience. • Mentor and empower engineering managers and tech leads, fostering a high-performing culture focused on continuous improvement and technical excellence. • Oversee integration efforts with third-party APIs and tools, ensuring seamless and secure connectivity across systems. • Guide modernization of legacy systems to enhance scalability, performance, and developer experience. • Champion operational excellence through best practices in monitoring, incident management, and system reliability. • Create and support a collaborative, agile environment where engineers are engaged, productive, and have clear paths for growth. • Stay close to cutting-edge technologies and global-scale challenges, driving innovation across the engineering organization. • Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life wellness.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience managing and mentoring multiple high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced, product-focused environment. • Strong architectural background, with a track record of designing and scaling complex, distributed systems and modern web applications. • Deep experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and a solid understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns. • Proficient in designing RESTful APIs and leading cross-functional collaboration between frontend and backend teams. • Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and systems design. • Experienced in relational and non-relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB), with an understanding of scaling and performance best practices. • Able to set a clear technical vision, communicate it effectively across teams, and ensure alignment with business strategy. • Proficient in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Ruby, Go, C++); Golang experience is a plus. • Strong communicator capable of influencing across functions and geographies, with fluency in English and experience leading globally distributed teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Free Gold membership with access to onsite gyms and studios, digital fitness programs, and online wellness resources for meditation, nutrition, mental wellbeing support, and more! Add up to three family members to your plan, ensuring access to wellness for those who matter most to you. • Health insurance. • As a Flexible First company, we offer hybrid and remote options to give you the freedom to work in a way that suits you. The model for this specific role can be discussed with your recruiter and hiring manager. We offer all employees a one-time reimbursement to set up their home office equipment and a monthly work allowance to help cover the costs of working from home. • Flexibility for us isn’t just about where we work—it also means being able to shape how and when we get things done. Together with their leaders, employees define schedules that align with their time zones, team needs, and personal routines. • We know how important it is to take time away from work to recharge. Employees receive a minimum of 25 days paid holiday per year with an additional day for each year of tenure (up to 5) in addition to annual holidays (including an extra holiday on your birthday!). • Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life. Take the time to be present and enjoy your growing family. We offer 100% paid parental leave to all new parents. Parents giving birth are eligible for an extended leave and a ramp-back period to return part-time while they get settled. • Access world-class platforms, participate in interactive sessions, build your personalized development roadmap, and explore internal opportunities. We focus on continuous learning and feedback to support your journey toward personal and professional success. • You’ll join a team of passionate people who come together to break boundaries, support each other, and create a meaningful impact in workplace wellness. We win together, building trust through open communication and a culture where every perspective matters.