Senior Software Engineer (Quality, Health Records)

Location: Boston, MA, United States; Onsite

Salary: $150K–$215K annually plus equity

Company

WHOOP develops technology that helps members understand their bodies and daily lives to improve performance.

What you will do

• Define quality strategy and test automation for Health Records across data ingestion, transformation, storage, and downstream consumption.
• Build automated validation for APIs, databases, data pipelines, and healthcare formats such as FHIR using Java, Python, SQL, and data-validation frameworks.
• Design reusable data-mocking capabilities for internal data, third-party APIs, events, and payloads, and integrate them with testing services.
• Lead quality and test-infrastructure initiatives from planning through delivery, evaluating tradeoffs and investigating systemic issues.
• Establish practices for data quality, testability, test data, and observability while ensuring HIPAA-compliant PHI-safe testing.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, and domain experts; mentor engineers and expand ownership of Health Records quality.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in SDET, QA Engineering, Data Quality Engineering, ETL testing, or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong SQL and database skills, including data integrity validation, reconciliation, transformations, and complex data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, JSON, request/response patterns, events, and data payloads, including testing or mocking third-party integrations.
• Experience building automation and reusable testing infrastructure with Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Experience designing and testing ETL/ELT pipelines, distributed data flows, or other data-intensive systems, including failure, recovery, and edge-case scenarios.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, influence technical direction, and build reusable solutions adopted by other engineers or teams.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical partners, plus experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Healthcare experience, particularly with EHR/EMR data, FHIR and similar standards, clinical data, healthcare terminology, and HIPAA/PHI requirements.
• Experience with cloud and event-driven infrastructure, high-volume data pipelines, data-quality or observability frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, or FHIR validation tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time onsite role based in Boston, United States.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• Role includes mentoring engineers and developing shared engineering practices and reusable solutions.