Staff Software Engineer – Insurance

🕒 August 7

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $224k - $336k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 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

• Lead the design and implementation of systems powering Headway’s insurance operations • Build systems for patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims • Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms serving patients and providers • Develop systems that learn from every visit • Mentor engineers • Write high-impact code at the intersection of healthcare data and payer operations • Build ML models to improve price estimate accuracy • Develop OCR pipelines for insurance cards and automate eligibility checks • Build ML systems to detect complex insurance arrangements • Develop claims AI agents that review denied claims, identify root causes, and resubmit claims autonomously • Build human-in-the-loop automation for provider credentialing

🎯 Requirements

• Platform-thinking approach to software engineering • Ability to build abstractions that enable teams to move faster and more safely • Ability to find structure in messy payer data and build reliable reasoning systems • Hands-on coding ability • Experience turning ambiguous problems into shipped software • Ability to define solutions and coordinate across teams as priorities shift • Precise written and verbal communication • Experience with TypeScript • Experience with Python 3 • Experience with React, Remix, or Next.js • Experience with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, or Snowflake • Experience with AWS, Temporal, or Kafka • Experience with Datadog, Sentry, or PagerDuty • Experience with AI tools such as Cursor, Claude, Gemini, or Eddy • Authorization to work in the United States for any employer

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity compensation • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage • HSA / FSA • 401K • Work-from-Home Stipend • Therapy Reimbursement • 16-week parental leave for eligible employees • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership • 13 paid holidays each year • Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st • Flexible PTO • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Training and professional development • Robust health and wellness benefits • Retirement savings • Meaningful ownership opportunities through equity

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