Staff Software Engineer (Payer)

What this role involves

Headway is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Payers & Outcomes team. The role involves building ML/LLM-powered systems for clinical feedback, risk detection, quality measurement, and patient-provider matching. The engineer will work across the stack (TypeScript, Python, React, etc.) and help lay architectural foundations for the growing group.

Skills this posting asks for

• typescript
• python3
• react
• remix
• next.js
• fastapi
• sqlalchemy
• postgres
• redis
• snowflake
• aws
• temporal
• kafka
• datadog
• sentry
• pagerduty
• cursor
• claude
• gemini
• llm
• ml
• eddy

Requirements

• Level: staff

From the employer’s posting

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to ca…