Senior Software Engineer, API

About the Senior Software Engineer, API at Headspace:

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.

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, 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: 

Required Skills:

• 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

Preferred Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or 5+ years of software engineering work experience
• Strong understanding of database management and object-oriented programming

Pay & Benefits:

The base salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to skills and scope required, relevant licensure and certifications, and unique relevant experience and job-related skills. The base salary range for this role is $104,981 - $157,476.

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