Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Headspace

Headspace is on a mission to provide every person access to lifelong mental health support. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Core Platform group. This role is crucial for building out the core capabilities required to onboard and grow our B2B customer installations. These capabilities include authentication, payments, entitlements, and shared services across our B2B and direct-to-consumer customers.

What you will do

• 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

What you will bring

Required Skills:

• 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

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with AWS platforms
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Terraform
• Experience building health tech software