Playlist is looking to solve technical challenges in developing and supporting a product with a high user engagement rate, aiming to foster meaningful, real-world connections through fitness and wellness experiences. The company seeks to empower businesses and individuals by making it effortless for aspirations to become actions, ultimately reshaping technology's role.
Requirements
- Kotlin / Java
- AWS (ECS, SQS, RDS)
- Modern mobile development (Swift/SwiftUI, Android/Jetpack Compose)
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- Building consumer products and delivering high-quality mobile applications at scale
- Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to do so if/when needed
- Applying your engineering background to coach your team toward scalable, durable solutions
Responsibilities
- Mentoring, leading and growing a team of high-performing software engineers
- Leading the engineering effort for a major greenfield feature while partnering closely with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Ensuring engineering best practices across coding standards, testing, documentation, and operational excellence
- Bringing new ideas, tools, and approaches to continuously improve how the team executes
- Representing your team within Playlist/ClassPass engineering leadership and contributing to org-wide initiatives
- Guide engineers through complex decision-making, and ensure high-quality execution across the stack
- Balance short-term experimentation with long-term technical vision
Other
- Providing ongoing feedback, conducting regular 1:1s, and supporting performance and career development
- Championing strong onboarding practices and setting new hires up for long-term success
- Fostering an inclusive team culture grounded in accountability, trust, and shared ownership
- Driving effective collaboration across time zones and strengthening our remote-first culture
- 3+ years leading engineering teams with demonstrated success in coaching, mentoring, and career development
- A proven ability to give clear, actionable feedback and build a culture of continuous improvement
- Comfort managing performance and driving clarity across remote teams
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to connect technical and human perspectives seamlessly
- We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.
