Senior Software Engineer, API

Summary

Join Headspace's growing Engagement Org as a Senior Software Engineer, API! You will be part of the partnerships team, prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of our enterprise platform. This role involves designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications, writing efficient code, and collaborating throughout the development lifecycle. You'll build APIs primarily on Typescript/Node.js for our AWS-based services and work with product and engineering teams to release high-scale services. This position offers a chance to work on a product impacting over 65M users and contribute to a mission-driven company. Headspace values knowledge sharing and provides opportunities for professional growth.

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