Engineering Manager – Revenue Engine

Headway

Engineering Manager leading Claims Platform or Billing Infrastructure for Headway’s mental healthcare software. Owning reliable, explainable systems that process appointments, payer claims, and financial commitments.

Posted 8/6/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $222,800 - $278,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams and driving technical direction in financial systems, with a strong focus on data integrity, observability, and automation. Proven ability to build partnerships across operations, finance, and compliance while delivering business outcomes through strategic technical investments.

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Engineering ManagementBackend SystemsData IntegrityTechnical Design ReviewsFinancial Systems

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Hard Skills

Event-Driven ArchitectureWorkflow OrchestrationHigh-Reliability Data PipelinesCorrectness MetricsAutomationIncident ResponseData ModelsMigrationsObservabilitySLAs

Soft Skills

PrioritizationRoadmap JudgmentPartnership BuildingProduct-Minded ApproachData-Informed Decision Making

Industry Keywords

Healthcare ClaimsEDIClearinghouseFintechPayments

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow an engineering team, including hiring, development, and culture-setting
Own a core surface of Headway's financial systems and co-own its roadmap with a product partner
Set technical direction across architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, reliability targets, and data models
Define correctness metrics, establish observability, support incident response and on-call, and convert manual toil into automation
Partner with Revenue Engine teams, platform teams, Finance, Accounting, and other stakeholders
For Claims Platform: oversee claims transmission, payer-response interpretation, and faithful recording of claims outcomes
For Billing Infrastructure: oversee orchestration and immutable commitment of patient responsibility, payer responsibility, and provider payout
Lead technical design reviews while remaining close to system architecture and implementation

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager building and leading teams that delivered business outcomes through technical investment
3–5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
Depth in backend and distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, or high-reliability data pipelines
Experience leading work where correctness and data integrity were non-negotiable, such as financial systems, payments, billing, claims, or similarly consequential domains
Experience de-risking migrations
Ability to define correctness in ambiguous domains, set metrics, instrument systems, and defend standards as inputs and volume change
Strong prioritization and roadmap judgment
Technical credibility in architecture and design reviews
Experience building durable partnerships with operations, finance, or compliance stakeholders
Product-minded and data-informed approach
Nice to have: healthcare claims, EDI, or clearinghouse experience
Nice to have: fintech or payments background
Nice to have: experience establishing observability and SLAs
Nice to have: experience growing a small team into a larger one
Authorization to work in the United States

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
Flexible PTO
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Training and professional development
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities