About the position
Headspace is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join its growing B2B Org. Our org is responsible for building and maintaining the eligibility systems and the enrollment experiences for our growing enterprise & SME customer base, as well as building partnership integrations for strategic partnerships. This role in particular is for the partnerships team wherein you'll be tasked with prototyping, architecting, and executing on the creation of our enterprise platform, and be integral in the B2B 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. Being on the Headspace 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 job a sense of purpose! Location: This is a hybrid role located in our San Francisco office, working 3 days per week from the office.
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 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice-to-haves
- 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
Benefits
- Base salary range of $122,400-$195,500 + equity + benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Retirement savings match
- Lifetime Headspace membership
- Generous parental leave
