Senior Backend Software Engineer

🕒 August 7

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

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $182.8k - $278.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Headway

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2019

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Insurance • Consulting • Logistics

Headway is a platform that connects individuals with mental health providers, helping them find the right fit according to their needs and insurance coverage. By partnering with numerous insurance providers, Headway ensures that users can access mental health care affordably. It offers both in-person and virtual care options, and manages the payment and billing processes for a hassle-free experience. The platform's aim is to simplify the search and access to therapy and psychiatric support for users, allowing them to focus on their mental health without the administrative burdens.

📋 Description

• Design and build systems for storing and managing clinical data, including treatment plans, progress notes, patient history, and AI-powered clinical intelligence • Build and scale insurance billing systems that estimate and file claims for major insurance payers • Develop backend services for personalized care recommendations, health tracking, longitudinal data views, and therapist discovery experiences • Build ledger systems ensuring accurate payment to more than 70,000 providers, with idempotency and strict consistency • Define solutions for ambiguous problems and deliver production software • Make technical decisions optimized for maintainability and scale • Improve engineering velocity through tooling, automation, and reusable patterns • Mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews • Collaborate across teams and communicate through Slack, design documents, and meetings • Apply AI and LLMs to code generation, operational automation, and developer tooling responsibly in healthcare • Participate in live coding, technical, and non-technical interviews as part of the hiring process

🎯 Requirements

• Experience turning ambiguous problems into shipped software • Ability to define solutions, involve the right cross-functional partners, and adapt to changing priorities • Technical decision-making focused on maintainability and scalability • Ability to improve engineering velocity through tooling, automation, and engineering patterns • Experience mentoring engineers through design discussions and code reviews • Ability to deliver working solutions quickly and iterate based on feedback • Ability to learn complex healthcare domains, payer rules, regulations, and exceptions quickly • Clear and concise communication in Slack threads, design documents, and cross-team meetings • Experience experimenting with LLMs in code generation, operational automation, or developer tooling • Builder’s mindset regarding responsible AI automation in healthcare • Proficiency with Python and TypeScript • Experience with Postgres, Redis, Snowflake, AWS, Temporal, Datadog, Sentry, or PagerDuty

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive equity package • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • HSA/FSA • 401(k) • Carrot Fertility reimbursement • 16-week parental leave • Therapy reimbursement • Professional development budget • 13 holidays • Full week off in December • Flexible PTO

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