Senior Software Engineer, API

Summary

Join Headspace's growing B2B organization as a Senior Software Engineer, API! You will be a key player in prototyping, architecting, and executing the creation of our enterprise platform for strategic partnerships. This role involves designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications, writing efficient code, and collaborating throughout the development lifecycle. You'll build APIs and workflows primarily using Python and work with product and engineering teams to release scalable services. Headspace offers a comprehensive compensation package including a competitive salary, stock awards, healthcare, wellness stipends, and more. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• At least 3-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building APIs, (micro)services
• 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
• Self-motivated bar raiser who can work autonomously or collaboratively, as needed, with cross-functional teams, product managers, designers, stakeholders and other engineers
• Comfortable demystifying vague requirements and can make tough technical decisions or trade-offs based on constraints

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 and workflows, primarily on Python
• 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 Python and Django development
• Experience building backend systems at scale with observability in mind
• Strong understanding of database management and object-oriented programming
• Experience with Node.js and Typescript is a plus

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 are also included for those in eligible roles