Senior Software Engineer, API

Summary

Join Headspace's Native Growth Team as a Senior Software Engineer, API! You will build partner experiences, expand access to Headspace, and contribute to platform monetization. This role involves prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of our enterprise platform. You'll collaborate with product stakeholders, design and develop high-volume applications, and work with various teams to release services at scale. We are open to both full-stack and back-end focused candidates. This position offers the opportunity to work on a product impacting over 65 million users and contribute to a mission-driven company. Come join us and make a difference!

Requirements

• At least 3-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building APIs, (micro)services
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision on projects, while being comfortable collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers
• Experience defining, designing and shipping new features in a remote environment
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as using CI/CD system
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated ability to make tough technical decisions based off of requirements, constraints, and trade-offs

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems
• Write well designed, testable, performant, and efficient code
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle, from collaborating with product stakeholders, writing tech specs & RFCs, to feature release and operations
• Build APIs, primarily on Typescript/Node.js for our AWS-based services
• Produce specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Work with product and engineering teams to release services that operate at our high scale

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, with 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience with Node.JS and Typescript
• Strong understanding of database management and object-oriented programming

Benefits

• Base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, unlimited, free mental health coaching, generous parental leave
• Paid performance incentives