Headway

Staff Software Engineer, Payer

Headway

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $224,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Building a new mental healthcare system at Headway
  • Using technology to build that future
  • Making early, foundational architecture decisions that will shape how Headway scales and integrates with payers
  • Developing applied LLM systems that deliver actionable, trustworthy feedback to providers
  • Tackling the “one-size-fits-none” problem in mental healthcare

Requirements

  • You have experience working across the stack on modern web applications
  • Strong understanding of at least one programming language and comfortability with others
  • Shaped work to achieve company and team goals
  • Flexed into new technical and non-technical areas as projects require
  • Committed team member supporting the growth of those around them
  • Has designed and scaled ML / LLM-powered systems in production
  • Architected complex systems spanning multiple technical domains or product areas (e.g., publishing npm packages or owning infrastructure depended on by multiple teams)
  • Driven technical vision and strategy at the organization level, by writing and reviewing technical design documents and participating in quarterly planning activities
  • Established engineering standards and best practices across multiple teams
  • Led major technical initiatives requiring coordination across multiple teams
  • Mentored senior engineers and technical leaders
Benefits
  • Equity Compensation
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • HSA / FSA
  • 401K
  • Work-from-Home Stipend
  • Therapy Reimbursement
  • 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
  • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
  • 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
  • Flexible PTO
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Training and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
programming languageLLM systemsmachine learningweb applicationsarchitectural designtechnical design documentsengineering standardsbest practicesinfrastructurenpm packages
Soft Skills
team collaborationgoal-orientedflexibilitymentorshipleadershipcommunicationstrategic visionsupportivecoordinationcommitment