Senior Software Engineer, Headspace Health

API

$105-157.5k

+ Stock awards

AWS
TypeScript
Node.js
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US
Headspace Health

Mental health and wellbeing platform

Be an early applicant

Headspace Health

Mental health and wellbeing platform

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMental healthMobileWellbeing

Be an early applicant

$105-157.5k

+ Stock awards

AWS
TypeScript
Node.js
Mid and Senior level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMental healthMobileWellbeing

Company mission

To transform mental healthcare to improve the health and happiness of the world.

Role

Who you are

  • 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

Desirable

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

What the job involves

  • 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 system
  • 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

Our take

The world is facing a growing mental health crisis. In 2022, the US saw the proportion of the population with an acute anxiety, depression or other mental health need grow from 20% to 40%.

In 2021, Headspace and Ginger finalised a $3bn merger to form Headspace Health, an accessible mental health platform. It is determined to democratize mental healthcare, and its brands are already being used by over 100 million people and more than 4,000 enterprises including Starbucks, Adobe and Paramount.

There is clearly a need for virtual mental healthcare, and the market is growing increasingly crowded, with competitors including His & Hers Health. However, Headspace Health sets itself apart with its rapidly growing portfolio of services, added in part through strategic acquisitions such as that of AI health firm Sayana in 2022. It is now focusing on international expansion, offering its services directly to companies in the UK for the first time and planning to enter international markets over the course of 2023.

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Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jun 2020

$47.7m

SERIES C

Feb 2020

$53m

SERIES C

Total funding: $175.4m

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Russell Glass

(CEO, not founder)

Previously VP of Products at Linkedin. Was also CEO of Ginger, before it merged with Headspace to create Headspace Health. Presently, on the Board at CollegeSolved, Breakthrough Collaborative, and Rock the Vote.

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