Software Engineer II

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.

Mindbody equips wellness entrepreneurs with technology to support thriving businesses and create exceptional experiences. Innovation and curiosity drive our culture, connecting businesses and individuals through cutting-edge solutions. Join us if you're passionate about enhancing wellness through technology.

Who we are

At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections. 

What You’ll Do

• Implement backend features and fixes in C#/.NET for payment flows (auth, capture, refunds, reconciliation), APIs, and internal services.

• Analyze system behavior and propose improvements to performance, reliability, and security; turn findings into well-scoped backlog items.

• Harden integrations with gateways and third-party providers

• Write comprehensive unit and integration tests; participate in code reviews and documentation.

• Ability to evaluate new features, assess performance impacts, and identify risk factors early.

• Help maintain CI/CD pipelines and release hygiene; follow SDLC conventions and team coding standards.

• Collaborate closely with product managers to clarify requirements, estimate work, and communicate risk and tradeoffs.

• Participate in the on-call rotation to ensure uptime and responsive incident handling.

Experience You Bring

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience, including building and operating backend services in production.

• Strong hands-on experience with C#, ASP.NET/.NET Core, and RESTful API development.

• Practical experience with AWS or another major cloud (e.g., EKS/ECS, EC2, ElastiCache/Redis, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch).

• Comfortable with message-driven and service-based architectures; familiarity with at-least-once delivery semantics and idempotent processing.

• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases; able to write efficient queries and reason about data modeling and performance.

• Solid understanding of testing practices (unit, integration, contract), code quality, and peer review.

• Working knowledge of SDLC, Agile practices, and DevOps principles; able to ship reliably and incrementally.

• Clear, respectful communication and a bias for action; comfortable collaborating across teams and functions.

Nice to Have

• Payments or fintech experience (gateways, tokenization, webhooks, chargebacks, reconciliation, PCI considerations).

• Experience with Ruby or React in a production environment.

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).

• Performance profiling and tuning within distributed systems.

Technologies You’ll Work With

• Backend: C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, MVC, ADO.NET, LINQ; Ruby (nice to have)

• Frontend: React (nice to have)

• Datastores: NoSQL and relational databases

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EKS, EC2, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS), CI/CD, observability, Agile workflows

Have we piqued your curiosity?

Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.

Playlist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.

Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.