Software Engineer, API
Posted on October 19, 2025 (about 11 hours ago)
About the Software Engineer, API at Headspace:
Headspace is seeking a talented Software Engineer to join its growing B2B Org. The org is responsible for building and maintaining eligibility systems and enrollment experiences for enterprise and SME customers, and building partnership integrations for strategic partnerships. This role is for the partnerships team, focusing on prototyping, architecting, and executing the enterprise platform, contributing to the B2B org's growth.
The role involves working on a product impacting over 65 million users, bringing new features to life to meet the mission, and pushing the platform to newer technologies.
Location: This is a hybrid role located in the San Francisco office, working 3 days per week on-site.
What you will do:
- Impact millions of users with your work, contributing to mental health improvement worldwide.
- Design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
- Write well designed, testable, performant, and efficient code.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including collaborating with product stakeholders, writing tech specs and RFCs, feature release, and operations.
- Build APIs primarily using Typescript/Node.js and Python/Django for AWS-based services.
- Work with product and engineering teams to release services operating at high scale.
What you will bring:
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of hands-on software development experience building APIs and microservices.
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React and Next.
- Proficiency in Typescript/Node.js and/or Python/Django.
- Strong debugging skills and experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, as well as CI/CD systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passion for collaboration and thriving in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Skills:
- Exposure to alerting, logging, and monitoring frameworks.
- Solid understanding of database management and object-oriented programming.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
Pay & Benefits:
Base salary range: $100,800 - $161,000 plus equity and benefits. Salary is dependent on location, experience, skills, and education. Benefits include stock awards, healthcare, wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, parental leave, and more.
About Headspace:
Headspace provides lifelong mental health support combining evidence-based content, clinical care, and technology impacting millions globally. The values emphasize mission impact, iteration, ownership, and courage, fostering a connected, human-centered team redefining mental health care.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Meaningful mission impact.
- Collaborative, inclusive culture grounded in values.
- The opportunity to shape the future of mental health care.
- Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging:
Committed to a diverse and inclusive environment free of discrimination and harassment. Equal opportunity employer respecting laws enforced by the EEOC, fostering diversity. Provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities under applicable laws.
Includes participation in E-Verify Program and privacy statement assurances. Ethical considerations about dual relationships with mental health clients explained. Personal data usage for application is detailed with privacy links provided.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply by submitting their application through the provided job posting platform. The application form includes fields for personal information, resume/CV, and cover letter attachments. Specific fields required are indicated with asterisks. Candidates will provide employment history and other relevant information as part of the application process.
Headspace encourages applications from diverse backgrounds and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Further application details and support contact through Talent team are available via the job posting links.