Staff Backend Software Engineer, Revenue Engine

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🏄 California, New York, +1 more states – Remote

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💵 $264k - $330k / year

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Headway

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2019

🏥 Healthcare

🏪 Marketplace

☁️ SaaS

💰 $100M Series D - Headway on 2024-07

Healthcare • Marketplace • SaaS

Headway is a healthcare technology company (Therapymatch, Inc. ) that operates an insurance-native marketplace connecting people with licensed mental health providers — therapists and psychiatrists — for in-person and online care. Headway matches users with providers by specialty, location, and insurance coverage, handles insurance verification and billing, and offers tools for providers (provider portal and an insurance-native EHR) to reduce administrative burden. The platform partners with 100+ insurance plans, supports many languages, and emphasizes affordable, in-network mental health care.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction across the Payment Platform and Clearinghouse Platform teams • Partner with engineering leadership on foundational platform decisions for moving money between patients, providers, and payers • Lead the design of fault-tolerant, observable, and deeply reconciled integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and payer clearinghouses • Build abstractions and standards for adjacent engineering teams, including Billing Infrastructure, Patient Billing, and Provider Payouts • Write code where leverage is highest • Mentor senior engineers across both pods • Shape operational excellence, reliability, throughput, and correctness of payment and claims systems • Address distributed-systems challenges involving concurrency, idempotency, and partial failures • Participate in technical and non-technical interviews as part of the hiring process

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on technical leadership in backend and distributed systems engineering • Ability to design fault-tolerant, observable, and deeply reconciled integrations • Experience with concurrency, idempotency, and partial-failure problems • Ability to make technical decisions optimizing for maintainability and scale • Experience turning ambiguous problems into shipped software • Ability to mentor senior engineers and teach through code reviews and design discussions • Ability to learn complex healthcare, payer, regulatory, and exception-driven domains quickly • Precise and concise communication across Slack, design documents, and cross-team meetings • Experience applying LLMs to code generation, operational automation, or developer tooling • Backend/frontend context switching, including API architecture and frontend state management • Familiarity with TypeScript, Python 3, React, Remix, Next.js, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, Snowflake, AWS, Temporal, Kafka, Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and Eddy • Must be located in the NYC, SF, or Seattle regions • Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity package • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • HSA/FSA • 401(k) • Carrot Fertility reimbursement • 16-week parental leave • Therapy reimbursement • Professional development budget • 13 holidays • A full week off in December • Flexible PTO • Optional in-office time at offices in NYC, SF, and Seattle