Headway

Senior Backend Software Engineer

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almost 2 years ago
Remote, United States +3 moreSenior

Base Salary

$183k - $279k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems for clinical data, treatment plans, progress notes, patient history, and AI-powered clinical intelligence.
  • Scale insurance billing systems that estimate and file claims across major insurance payers.
  • Develop patient-focused backend services for care recommendations, health tracking, longitudinal data, and therapist discovery.
  • Build ledger systems with idempotency and strict consistency to ensure accurate provider payments.
  • Own ambiguous problems from solution definition through shipped software and make maintainability- and scale-oriented technical decisions.
  • Improve engineering velocity through tooling, automation, and reusable engineering patterns.
  • Mentor engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience turning ambiguous problems into shipped software and owning outcomes.
  • Ability to make technical decisions that optimize for maintainability and scale.
  • Strong mentoring, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
  • Ability to learn complex healthcare, payer, regulatory, and billing domains quickly.
  • Experience or demonstrated interest in applying LLMs to real workflows, operational automation, code generation, or developer tooling.
  • Ability to move quickly, iterate based on user feedback, and make responsible engineering decisions in healthcare.

Benefits

  • $182,750–$278,500 base salary plus a competitive equity package.
  • Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k), Carrot Fertility reimbursement, and 16-week parental leave.
  • Therapy reimbursement and a professional development budget.
  • 13 holidays, a full week off in December, and flexible PTO.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogPostgreSQLPythonRedisSnowflakeTypeScript

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