Senior Backend Engineer (relocation to Cyprus)

About Welltech

A future with Welltech

Welltech’s purpose is to move each and every body to start and stay well for life! Every trend, every piece of feedback and data, every experiment, and innovative solution we introduce, fuels the way we unlock wellness for and with our users. While appreciating and celebrating who they are, we strive to help them make turn small choices into lasting joyful habits. And that makes us proud of every step they take on their journey to living well, every day.

Disrupting industry

We are an international tech company with origin from Ukraine, founded in 2015, and a fast-growing global player with five hubs across Europe. With more than 220 million installs of our apps, Welltech offers disruptive, engaging fitness and wellness solutions. We are genuinely committed to creating value and ensuring a workplace where our talented, diverse individuals feel they belong as we shape the future of the health and fitness industry. Everything we do is driven by our purpose and guided by integrity, a testament to the trust we build- today and tomorrow.

Spread across five dynamic hubs in Cyprus, Poland, Spain, Ukraine and the UK, with a team of over 700+ #wellmakers, we provide an opportunity for everyone who is passionate about making an impact in the wellness industry.

Position

We are seeking a product-minded, impact-driven Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Domain Driven Design, cross-functional product development and Developer Productivity. In this role, you’ll collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to spearhead the development of a greenfield product, evolve existing content management systems, and ensure our platforms remain robust, scalable, and efficient. You’ll be an advocate for highly iterative development approaches, data-driven decision-making in your team, fueling our mission to bring health and wellness to millions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead development of a greenfield product: Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to spearhead development of a greenfield, data and multimedia powered product in the wellness & fitness space

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, software engineers, content producers, data experts, and infrastructure teams

• Mentor & lead by example: Provide guidance to team members, lead team level product and engineering initiatives, influence coding standards, support your team in making critical decisions

• Set us up to maximize the pace of experimentation: Advocate for and drive implementation of highly iterative development practices and technical solutions that can allow us to maximize the pace of experimentation while maintaining quality

• Be a champion of Engineering Excellence: Advocate for and implement best engineering practices, foster a learning culture, and influence strategic technical decisions in your team. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems owned by your team

Your qualification

• Strong product & business mindset: Proven ability to drive the building of successful products and/or platforms used by product teams, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Domain experts to create value for customers

• Domain Driven Design: comprehensive system design skills with proven impact building new and refactoring existing large-scale systems powering customer-facing products

• Proven technical foundation: Strong hands-on engineering background on the backend, strong experience with relational and non-relational databases and AWS infrastructure (e.g. Lambda/API Gateway/SQS/SES/CloudFormation/CloudWatch)

• Language and tool agnostic approach: Ready to pick the right tool for each challenge Experience with building efficient, scalable, reliable backend systems in Python or Kotlin is a plus. Our main language of programming is Python

• System-level impact: Track record of influencing technical direction of your team and of effective collaboration with adjacent teams, with the ability to highlight risks, trade-offs and propose efficient solutions

• Engineering culture & excellence: Demonstrated ability to shape and elevate engineering culture, methodologies, and best practices in your team

• Developer productivity: Experienced in maximising developer productivity through the right technical choices, highly iterative development practices to achieve high pace of data-driven experimentation

• End-to-end ownership and dealing with ambiguity: You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and taking a leading role in executing on them

• (Nice to Have) Experience with Data and/or Multimedia

Ready to make a transformative impact on global wellness? Join us at Welltech and help millions of users lead healthier, happier lives!

What we offer

• Grow Together: Join a culture that champions both personal and professional growth. Here, you’ll thrive as we learn, evolve, and succeed together.

• Lead by Example: No matter your role, your leadership matters. Every team member is empowered to inspire and make an impact.

• Results-Driven: We’re all about achieving meaningful outcomes. It’s not just about the effort, but the difference we make every day.

• We Are Well-Makers: Be part of a movement that’s creating a healthier, happier world. Together, we make well-being a reality!

Additional details

Candidate journey

Recruiter call --> Live code review --> System Design Interview --> Meet the Hiring Manager

Check out some of our products

Muscle Booster — https://musclebooster.fitness/ 

Yoga-Go — https://yoga-go.io/ 

WalkFit - http://walkfit.pro