Headspace is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Headspace's Membership team as a Senior Software Engineer, API to drive conversion and retention efforts. You'll be tasked with prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of new features in subscription, payment, and privilege systems.

Requirements

• At least 3-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building APIs, (micro)services
• Experience with Node.JS and Typescript
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision on projects, while being comfortable collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers, to
• 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 or 5+ years of software engineering work experience
• Strong understanding of database management and object-oriented programming

Benefits

• Base salary range: $104,981 - $157,476
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Retirement savings match
• Lifetime Headspace membership
• Unlimited, free mental health coaching
• Generous parental leave