OUR STORY

We are a company with integrated luxury and lifestyle offerings centered on Movement, Nutrition and Regeneration. In addition to Equinox, our other brands, Blink, Pure Yoga, SoulCycle, Furthermore, Precision Run and Equinox Hotels are all recognized for inspiring and motivating members and employees to maximize life. Within our portfolio of brands, we have more than 200 locations within every major city across the United States in addition to London, Toronto, & Vancouver.

OUR CODE

We are passionate about high performance living and we practice what we preach – investing time in our own health and fitness. We believe that everyone has untapped potential within them and it takes a disruptive approach to unleash it. We dream big and don’t settle for the status quo. We sweat the details. We never accept less than 110% to help each other deliver the Equinox experience and enable our members to get great results.  We are obsessed with what’s new, what’s now, what’s next. Never following, always leading, living ahead of the moment in fashion, culture and consumer behavior. We aren’t just a company; we’re a community vested in each other’s success. We value humility and a team approach at every level of the company.

If you are a high performing individual who is passionate about winning and inspiring others, then we are excited to discuss career opportunities with you.

As a Principal Software Engineer reporting to our Vice President, Digital Innovation, you will help us on our quest to innovate the future member experience as part of our high-performance lifestyle platform and ecosystem. This is a craft-mastery level role for software engineers that have been honing and perfecting their skills for years to create transformational software that propel businesses forward either through expansion or the creation of products. 

Focusing on our future experiences, you’ll take an active role in defining and executing against our technical strategy in alignment with product and design. You will be creating new connective experiences that bridge physical and digital experiences across multiple lines of business and member-facing product/service offerings. To be successful, you will partner across our senior engineering and product leadership teams to improve process and culture across engineering. In partnership and concert with peer engineering teams, contribute to building a great engineering culture that is focused on delivering value to our members.

You will create connectedness across our portfolio of brands, products and services. And you will excel under high-profile, high-pressure environments to realize your maximum potential and deliver high-performance.

Responsibilities

• Key member of a small, ninja squad with other principal design & engineering talent

• Collaborate with internal partners to evolve and execute our product innovation strategy

• Lead the creation and delivery of new initiatives that advance our overall innovation strategy

• Lead technical requirements gathering in partnership with your product and design.

• Drive technical design and systems architecture across our full ecosystem of digital products and applications

• Drive complex cross-team initiatives, bringing in and partnering with engineering, product and design from other pods and departments as needed

• Own the code you put into production with a focus on front-end development, supporting back-end development as needed.

• Support and advance thought leadership opportunities that arise from our work

• 8+ years of experience developing highly-available, critical user-facing systems

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or relevant experience)

• Demonstrated experience building mobile-first customer-facing applications in React & Redux or similar frameworks

• Demonstrated experience building native mobile-first applications (iOS preferred)

• Demonstrated experience writing scalable, high-performant, clean code

• Demonstrated experience developing web services

• Demonstrated experience with relational databases

• Strong understanding of AWS (e.g. ECS, CloudFormation, IAM, RDS, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience designing and developing platform level, reusable components

• Experience working on teams with a heavy emphasis on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and Quality (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, etc.)

• Experience working in an agile development environment

• Experience driving technical excellence and engineering practices across teams

• Build strong relationships with your peers and have a willingness to jump into any task

• Are optimistic and believe there is a better way to do things

• Think of the customer first and seek to delight them in new and exciting ways

• Love what you do

AS A MEMBER OF THE EQUINOX TEAM YOU WILL RECEIVE:

• We offer competitive salary, benefits and industry leading commission opportunities for club employees
• Complimentary Club membership
• 30- 50% discounts on all Equinox products and services including Personal Training, Private Pilates, Spa and Café’ services and Shop items

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the position. It is not a complete statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Other duties not listed here may be assigned as necessary to ensure the proper operations of the department.

Equinox is an equal opportunity employer. For more information regarding our career opportunities, please visit one of our clubs or our website at https://careers.equinox.com/

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must have a legal right to work in the United States.