Senior Backend Engineer for AI-Driven Healthcare

Headway; United States; On-site; USD 183,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Benefits

Equity Package

Parental Leave

Professional Development Budget

Job summary

Headway is seeking a Backend Engineer in the US to design and build an AI-enabled clinical system and an insurance billing engine that handles complex rules and high volumes. You will work on patient history, treatment plans, and automated summaries to support providers.

You will collaborate with data, product, and clinical teams to deliver reliable backend services for personalized care and scalable financial processing, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Candidates turn ambiguous problems into shipped software.
• Able to define solutions and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Strong communication and willingness to learn complex domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-integrity clinical data systems.
• Scale the insurance billing engine for high-volume claims.
• Build patient-first backend services for personalized care.
• Ensure financial ledger integrity and idempotency.

Skills

Owns Outcomes

Mentor by Default

Communicates with Precision

AI Frontier Tinkerer

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Headway is seeking a Backend Engineer in the US to design and build an AI-enabled clinical system and an insurance billing engine that handles complex rules and high volumes. You will work on patient history, treatment plans, and automated summaries to support providers.

You will collaborate with data, product, and clinical teams to deliver reliable backend services for personalized care and scalable financial processing, with a strong emphasis on data integrity and operational excellence.