Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack

About the Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack at Headspace:

Headspace is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack to join the Clinical Engineering team, which is building a smooth clinical appointment scheduling and provider matching experience. This involves working across the Headspace member app, Care Hub (our in-house web-app and Electronic Health Records system), and backend services to deliver high-quality clinical care to our members.

In this role, you will prototype, architect, and code in our Typescript/React and Python/Django services that power our clinical system, as well as our React web-app. You will serve as a technical leader across multiple projects, author and review technical RFCs, and identify areas for improvement in our products and tech stack. We're searching for a highly talented full-stack engineer with an API/systems focus who can help build the next-generation care platform!

Why Join Headspace's Care Hub Team?

• Impact Millions: Your work will impact over 65 million users and contribute to our mission of improving mental health worldwide.
• Innovative Technology: You'll work with cutting-edge technologies, prototyping, architecting, and coding with Typescript/JS/Node.js and Python/Django to power our care experience, from therapist matching and appointment scheduling to third-party integrations and HIPAA-compliant health records storage.
• Collaborative Environment: You'll work alongside talented product managers, designers, data analysts, and engineers in a fast-paced, supportive environment.
• Growth Opportunities: You'll contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, from initial concept to deployment and operations, and play a vital role in evolving our system architecture.

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.
• Serve as a technical leader and advocate for our Care Platform's architecture, helping to shape the future of our tech stack and identifying areas for improvement.
• Design and develop maintainable and flexible services for mission-critical systems that directly support mental healthcare delivery.
• 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.
• Set the standard for quality and technical excellence through code and design reviews and improve engineering processes and procedures.
• Mentor junior team members and foster their growth through feedback.

What you will bring:

Required Skills:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record of successfully leading large project teams and delivering complex projects across product and technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience working in API Development, in Python/Django and/or Typescript/Node.js.
• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks like React or Next.js, and state management frameworks like Redux
• 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 building Health Tech software
• Exposure to mobile development frameworks, such as Flutter

Pay & Benefits:

The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is $140,400-$224,250 + equity + benefits. 

Our salary ranges are based on the job, level, and location, and reflect the lowest to highest geographic markets where we are hiring for this role within the United States. Within this range, individual compensation is determined by a candidate’s location as well as a range of factors including but not limited to: unique relevant experience, job-related skills, and education or training. 

Your recruiter will provide more details on the specific salary range for your location during the hi