Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

Summary

Join Headspace as a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack and contribute to building exceptional web experiences, expanding access, and monetizing audiences through D2C and SMB channels. You will be involved in prototyping, architecting, and executing the development of our enterprise platform, playing a key role in its growth. This role offers the opportunity to work on a product impacting over 65 million users, introducing new features, and utilizing cutting-edge technologies. The position is US-remote, requiring permanent US residency. You will design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications, write efficient code, and collaborate throughout the development lifecycle. Headspace offers a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• At least 3-4 years of hands-on software development experience, building APIs, (micro)services and (micro)sites
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision on projects, while being comfortable collaborating with product managers, designers, and other engineers, to define, design and ship new features in a remote environment
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as using CI/CD system
• Excellent 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 web apps and 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, object-oriented programming, and web application development

Benefits

Base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, generous parental leave