Full Stack Developer (5-8 yrs)

TLDR

Build end-to-end features for a health and fitness app focusing on performance, scalability, and user experience through both backend services and modern web frontends.

Job Title: Full Stack Developer (5 to 8 Years)

Product: Health and Fitness App
Employment Type: Full-time
Location: (On-site / Hybrid / Remote, add as applicable)

About the Role

We are building a health and fitness app that helps users track workouts, nutrition, goals, and progress through a smooth mobile and web experience. We are hiring a Full Stack Developer (5 to 8 years) to build end-to-end features across backend services, APIs, and modern web frontends, with strong focus on performance, scalability, and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)

  • Develop responsive, user-friendly web interfaces (dashboard, admin, coach/trainer portals, internal tools)

  • Translate product requirements into clean, maintainable, tested code across the stack

  • Design data models and optimize queries for performance and reliability

  • Implement authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, RBAC)

  • Integrate third-party services (payments, notifications, analytics, fitness platforms, wearables)

  • Implement background jobs, queues, and scheduled workflows

  • Ensure security best practices (OWASP), privacy, and safe handling of user data

  • Set up observability (logs, monitoring, alerts) and improve system reliability

  • Collaborate with product, design, mobile, and QA teams, participate in code reviews and sprint planning

Required Skills and Experience

  • 5 to 8 years of full stack development experience in product companies or high-quality engineering teams

  • Strong backend skills in one of the following :

    • Node.js (TypeScript), Java (Spring Boot), Python (Django/FastAPI), Go, or .NET

  • Strong frontend experience with modern frameworks:

    • React / Next.js (preferred), Angular, or Vue

  • Solid understanding of API design, versioning, caching, and integration patterns

  • Strong database experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL, plus NoSQL is a bonus)

  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure), Docker, and CI/CD pipelines

  • Strong foundation in system design, performance optimization, and debugging

  • Comfortable writing unit tests, integration tests, and maintaining good code quality standards

Good to Have

  • Experience in health, fitness, wellness, or consumer subscription apps

  • Integrations with Apple Health, Google Fit, Fitbit, Garmin, Strava (or similar)

  • Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS), WebSockets, real-time features

  • Knowledge of microservices and service-to-service authentication

  • Exposure to compliance concepts (GDPR, HIPAA), especially if handling sensitive health data

  • Experience building admin panels, CMS, or internal tools for operations teams

What You’ll Work On (Examples)

  • User onboarding, profiles, goals, and progress tracking

  • Workout and nutrition planning modules, analytics dashboards

  • Subscription flows and payments (if applicable)

  • Notification and engagement systems (push, email, SMS)

  • Admin/ops tooling to manage content, users, coaches, and programs

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