Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Headspace is on a mission to provide every person access to lifelong mental health support. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Platform group, focusing on building core capabilities for onboarding and growing B2B customer installations, including authentication and payments.

Responsibilities:

• Lead projects from requirements gathering through implementation, collaborating closely with product, design, and data engineering stakeholders to identify problems and opportunities
• Contribute to and influence the evolution of overall system architecture and quality of our core platform services
• Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional partners to define, design, ship, and monitor new features while ensuring robust testing and quality standards. Effectively communicate technical ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences and keep stakeholders informed and aligned
• Apply your passion for user experience and technical expertise to design and build high impact user workflows
• Set the standard for quality and technical excellence through code and design reviews, while improving engineering processes and procedures
• Offering and soliciting direct constructive feedback openly, supporting the growth of teammates with a positive beginner’s mindset

Requirements:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 4+ years of professional development experience, building APIs and services
• 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
• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex full-stack projects across product and technology initiatives
• Strong expertise in modern backend frameworks such as Python (Django), Typescript (Node.js)
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) and a positive mindset to identify, collaborate, and drive solutions, explaining technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to make sound technical decisions based on requirements, constraints, and trade-offs, paired with strong documentation skills. Ability to discern and make strong technical decisions based on the business strategy
• Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Experience with AWS platforms
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform
• Experience building health tech software