Senior Software Engineer

About the product:

Headspace is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer, API/Fullstack to join its Core Platform Team and be responsible for building out platform strategy that supports every engineering team across Headspace. As part of this team, you’ll be tasked with prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of our platform, and be integral in the platform’s continued growth. We are open to both full stack or back end focused candidates.

Being on the engineering team, you’ll be working on a product that impacts more than 65M users. You will help us bring new features to life to meet our mission, while also helping push our platform to newer technologies as we embrace the cutting edge. A big goal needs talented people, so come join us and give your day job a sense of purpose!

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 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

What you will bring:

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Required Skills:

• At least 7+  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

Preferred Skills:

• • BS/MS degree in Computer Science, with 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience with Node.JS and Typescript
  • Strong understanding of database management, object-oriented programming, and web application development

Perks:

• We welcome new ideas and allow you to make an immediate impact on the team
• Health/Sport budget
• Remote work
• Flexible PTO
• Global offices
• Fun, positive, collaborative environment!