Tonal

Staff Backend Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Fitness Technology, Consumer ElectronicsIndustries

Senior Backend Engineer

Employment Type: FullTime Location Type: San Francisco or Remote, US

Who We Are

Tonal is the world’s first all-in-one home gym with a simply stunning design. It has completely revolutionized the fitness journey, with adaptive weight and coaching cues powered by advanced A.I. technology. We’ve united a diverse team of experts and decades of research to reinvent strength training, making it more efficient, more effective and more engaging. With this in mind, we want to bring that same innovative approach to the workplace. At Tonal, we continue our shift of emphasis by growing our instrumental team. We collectively weave our knowledge and creativity, as we redefine the future of fitness, and Power Progress for our members.

Overview

Tonal is looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and design, and play a critical role in building the platform that powers the world’s most intelligent personal trainer. You will be given the opportunity to solve challenging problems in the development of software for a unique consumer fitness product. You are entrepreneurial, thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, and execute at an A-level. Like us, you value clean, fast, high-performing, and maintainable software.

What You Will Do

  • Impact and contribute to the development of major software projects for our backend services. These services drive everything in our platform from personalized workout recommendations to dynamic media generation and distribution, and analytics based on the largest and most advanced fitness data set in the world.
  • Collaborate with our tightly integrated software, hardware and content teams to continually evolve a unique, consumer-oriented fitness product.
  • Work closely with the product team to clarify requirements and develop designs for new features.
  • Implement, test, deploy and monitor software for our cloud-based backend microservices.
  • Write and review clean, secure and testable code with a focus on maintainability, scalability and performance.
  • Develop and support cloud-based big data pipelines.
  • Use analytics to understand product behavior and motivate data-driven decisions.
  • Mentor and share your broad knowledge with more junior engineers.

Who You Are

A self-driven backend engineer, with experience owning software projects end-to-end and a desire to work in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.

  • 3+ years of software development experience.
  • Track record of solving problems end-to-end.
  • Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and RESTful APIs.
  • Expertise in server-side software development in Golang (or other languages, e.g. Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python).
  • Strong understanding of database design and modeling (e.g., PostgreSQL).
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to work collaboratively and cohesively in a cross-functional team.
  • Experience with data-intensive applications, big data pipelines and analytics, having used tools such as Snowflake, DataBricks, Amplitude and Looker.

Extra Credit

  • Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, ArgoCD.
  • Experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Airflow.
  • Experience with Android development, Flutter, Kotlin.
  • Experience with Swift/SwiftUI.
  • Experience working with remote teams.
  • Experience integrating with Stripe, OneSignal.
  • Interest in the fitness industry.

Company Culture & Inclusion

At Tonal, we believe that the unique and varied lived experiences of our teammates contribute to our overall strength. We don’t just appreciate differences, we celebrate them, and we always seek people that represent a wide variety of backgrounds. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and designing employee experiences that contribute to your growth as much as you do to ours. If your experience aligns with what we’re looking for (even if you don’t check every single box), send us your application. We would love to hear from you!

Tonal is committed to meeting the diverse needs of people with disabili

Skills

Backend Development
Microservices
Cloud
Software Development
AI
Data Analysis
Testing
Monitoring
Agile

Tonal

Home gym system with personalized workouts

About Tonal

Tonal offers a home gym solution that combines technology and fitness. Its main product is a wall-mounted fitness system that uses artificial intelligence to create personalized workout plans. This system tracks user performance and provides real-time feedback, helping users achieve their fitness goals. Tonal's equipment can adapt to different fitness levels, offering up to 200 pounds of adjustable weight and the capability to perform over 245 exercises. Unlike many competitors, Tonal focuses on providing a complete fitness experience in one device, eliminating the need for multiple gym equipment or memberships. The company's goal is to make fitness more accessible and convenient for everyone, with a business model that includes selling the equipment and offering a subscription service for ongoing personalized workout programs.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$564.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
Consumer Software, AI & Machine Learning, Consumer GoodsIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Top quality health care package
Commuter benefits
Parental leave
Flexible vacation days
Weekly catered team lunches
Office happy hours
Team offsites & company-wide events
New equipment on your first day
Tonal discounts

Risks

CEO change may lead to strategic shifts affecting company stability.
Increased competition from brands like Lululemon threatens market share.
High marketing costs with Spartan Race may not convert to long-term customers.

Differentiation

Tonal uses AI to provide personalized strength training workouts.
The equipment offers up to 200 pounds of adaptive weight resistance.
Tonal's wall-mounted design saves space and offers over 245 exercises.

Upsides

Partnerships with niche sports like volleyball and pickleball expand market reach.
Integration with Fitbit Charge 6 enhances user experience with real-time heart rate streaming.
Retail expansion to Best Buy increases accessibility and potential customer base.

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