Senior Software Engineer, API

Summary

Join Headspace as a Senior Software Engineer, API, and contribute to the development and maintenance of eligibility systems and enrollment experiences for enterprise and SME customers. You will be part of the partnerships team, prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of the enterprise platform. This role involves designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications, writing efficient code, and collaborating throughout the development lifecycle. You will build APIs and workflows primarily using Python and work with product and engineering teams to release scalable services. The position offers a hybrid work model (3 days in-office, 2 days remote) for candidates in the SF and LA areas, and remote work for other US-based candidates. Headspace offers competitive pay and benefits, including equity and a comprehensive healthcare package.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on software development experience, building APIs and microservices
• 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

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Retirement savings match
• Lifetime Headspace membership
• Generous parental leave