2 years ago
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.
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About Headway
Headway builds a software-enabled network that makes it easy for therapists to accept insurance and for patients to find in-network mental health care. Its platform handles credentialing, scheduling, claims, and payment reconciliation, matching patients to licensed providers and partnering with health plans to expand access. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company operates across the United States.