20 days ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Define and refine data governance, monitoring, quality, completeness, correctness, and traceability standards.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to address data needs early in the product lifecycle and promote data engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with Analytics, Data Science, and Infrastructure to evolve Headway’s data architecture.
- Own technical decisions across the data platform, including performance optimization and infrastructure-as-code.
- Ensure reliable underlying data for accurate and trustworthy AI-powered tools.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience as a data engineer building scalable systems and solving complex data problems.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with modern data platform tools and services such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, and Terraform.
- Familiarity with Metabase or Jupyter Notebooks is preferred.
- Pragmatic approach to balancing current needs with future scale.
- Strong ownership, bias toward action, collaborative mindset, and empathy for teammates and stakeholders.
- Passion for making mental healthcare more accessible and affordable.
Benefits
- Equity compensation and potential equity grant eligibility.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- HSA/FSA and 401(k).
- Work-from-home stipend.
- Therapy reimbursement.
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees.
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership.
- 13 paid holidays annually plus a holiday break between December 25 and December 31.
- Flexible PTO.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Training and professional development.
Categories
Data Engineering
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.