Senior Software Engineer, API

Overview

About the Senior Software Engineer, API at Headspace :

Headspace is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join its growing B2B Org. This team builds and maintains the eligibility systems and enrollment experiences for enterprise and SME customers, and develops partnership integrations for strategic partnerships. This role is on the partnerships team, where you will prototype, architect, and execute the creation of our enterprise platform and contribute to the B2B org’s growth. We value knowledge sharing and frequent mini-tech talks.

Being on the Headspace engineering team, you’ll work on a product that impacts more than 65M users. You will help bring new features to life to meet our mission and push our platform to newer technologies as we adopt cutting-edge approaches.

Location :

This is a hybrid role located in our San Francisco office, working 3 days per week from the office.

What you will do

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

Required Skills

At least 3-4 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

Preferred Skills

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

Bonus Skills

Experience with Node.js and TypeScript is a plus

The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is

$122,400–$195,500

• equity + benefits. Salary ranges reflect the job, level, and location. Individual compensation is determined by location and factors including experience, skills, and education. Your recruiter will provide more details during the hiring process.

At Headspace, base salary is one component of Total Rewards, which includes stock awards, healthcare coverage, wellness stipend, retirement savings match, Headspace membership, parental leave, and more. Additional details about Total Rewards will be provided during the recruitment process.

About Headspace

Headspace exists to provide every person access to lifelong mental health support. We combine evidence-based content, clinical care, and innovative technology to help millions of members get support that’s effective and accessible whenever and wherever they need it.

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