Senior Software Engineer

Headspace is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer, API to join its Membership team. Our team drives the conversion and retention efforts here at Headspace and is responsible for building and maintaining the subscription, payment, and privilege systems. In this role, you’ll be tasked with prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of new features in these systems and be integral to the D2C org’s continued growth. We are also big on sharing knowledge, helping each other learn and get better, and you will see frequent mini-tech talks throughout the year.

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

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