Software Engineer

F45 Training Inc., headquartered in Austin, Texas, offers consumers functional 45-minute workouts that are effective, fun, and community-driven. F45 utilizes proprietary technologies: a fitness programming algorithm and a patented technology-enabled delivery platform that leverages a rich content database of over 4,000 unique functional training movements to offer new workouts each day and provide a standardized experience across the Company's global footprint in over 65+ countries.

In this key role, you’ll be responsible for the development of F45’s proprietary heart rate monitoring and wearable technology, LionHeart. The LionHeart system tracks participant heart rate zones through a wireless heart rate monitor and displays the results in realtime on the studio leaderboard. At the end of every class, the LionHeart system compiles a participant's workout session into a summary graph that can then be viewed within the F45 iOS/Android App.

LionHeart has been highlighted as one of F45’s fastest growing technologies and offers extensive gamification opportunities. As the Lead LionHeart Engineer, you will be responsible for completing the migration of the LionHeart backend system into AWS (the migration is nearly done but requires testing and configuration updates) and supporting the platform’s evolution. Additionally, you will work closely with the Product Team to develop new features that will engage and motivate members to achieve their fitness goals.

This is a software engineering role that requires in-depth knowledge of PHP and backend technologies. You will be responsible for keeping the service running and updating the application to use the latest PHP and framework version. While the position works very closely with hardware (heart rate monitor and in-studio Hubs), you will not be directly responsible for hardware related issues or building firmware; this position is entirely focused on backend API development and ancillary technologies (sending emails via API, computing data analytics, querying data from a database, updating a simple frontend website, etc.).

This role will regularly engage with stakeholders throughout the development cycle. As such, the ideal candidate must have excellent communication skills and understanding of agile practices.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is not only a talented engineer but is also willing to lean in and support the company in other cross-disciplinary areas including analytics and data reconciliation.

This role is a perfect opportunity for those who are interested in leveraging their software engineering skills to support the company’s digital evolution in the fitness industry.

Location: Remote (or hybrid). Candidates either from Austin, Texas or willing to work in US central time alignment (regardless of base location in US) are encouraged to apply.

Tech Stack: PHP/laravel, MongoDB, RDS (MySQL), redis, and NodeJS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and push out new features to LionHeart and supporting systems
• Coordinate closely with the Product Team to deliver new features and hit key milestones
• Responsible for completing the migration of all LionHeart backend services into AWS
• Execute data governance and compliance for biometric and heart rate data (ie. configure archive/deletion policies)
• Write unit and integration tests for critical paths of the system
• Actively monitor service notifications within NewRelic to retain high service uptime
• Participate in daily stand ups and weekly sprint planning meetings
• Triage critical issues and resolve bugs

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience programming in PHP and OOP; experience programming in PHP 8.x (latest major version) is a big plus.
• Experience working with Laravel is a core requirement. Must have demonstrable understanding of Lavavel’s philosophy, methodology and practical ways of working with and extending Lavavel.
• Experience working with version control systems (ie. Github) is required; an active Github profile with contributions to open-source or public projects is expected.
• Experience writing unit/integration tests.
• Familiarity with Docker is desired.
• Expert proficiency in SQL database design, modeling, and querying.
• Excellent proficiency in Javascript and ES6. Experience in NodeJS (backend), React, Vue, and other frontend technologies (CSS/SASS) is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of the AWS ecosystem (ECS, RDS, S3, deployment pipelines)
• Experience working in Agile settings and strong understanding of Agile processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with both onshore and offshore teams as well as non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Able to work in a high energy environment and flexibility to manage change.
  

Serious bonus points

While these are great-to-haves, these are by no means disqualifying as many extremely talented developers haven’t checked most of these off.

• Fitness is an important part of your life or you have a daily gym routine!
• You have a passion for fitness wearable technology.
• You consider debugging bugs and writing code one of your super powers.
• You can find answers on the net like it’s nobody’s business.
• You participate in forums related to software engineering on a weekly basis.

Benefits

F45 Training is committed to offering competitive pay and benefits.

• Incredible Medical, Vision and Dental benefits
• Competitive salary, based on experience
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Casual dress and laid-back work environment
• Fun, fitness and health orientated environment

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F45 is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.