Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Platform (Remote)

Headway; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 264,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Headway is hiring a Staff Engineer to own the core Revenue Engine payment and clearinghouse platforms. You will shape architecture, implement fault-tolerant integrations with Stripe and payer systems, and mentor multiple engineering pods.

You will lead by example with hands-on coding, drive reliability and observability, and push for scalable patterns that support a growing mental healthcare network. This role emphasizes impact and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• End-to-End Product Builder who balances API architecture and user experience.
• Owns outcomes, turning ambiguous problems into shipped software.
• Sets the technical standard for maintainability and scale.
• Mentor by default, sharing knowledge across the team.
• Ships fast and iterates using real feedback from therapists and patients.
• Quick study in complex domains, especially healthcare payers and regulations.
• Motivated by impact to improve access to mental healthcare.
• Communicates with precision across cross-functional teams.
• AI frontier tinkerer—exploring practical automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead fault-tolerant, observable integrations with third-party services (Stripe, Plaid, payer clearinghouses).
• Build abstractions to enable dozens of teams to ship faster and safer on the platform.
• Write code hands-on while mentoring senior engineers across pods.
• Shape operational excellence for the payments domain (reliability, throughput, audit readiness).
• Drive architectural decisions with a focus on maintainability and scale.

Skills

End-to-End Product Builder

Owns outcomes

Sets technical standard

Mentor by default

Ships fast

Fast learner in complex domains

Impact-driven

Precise communicator

AI frontier tinkerer

Tools

TypeScript

Python 3

React

Remix

Next.js

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Postgres

Redis

Snowflake

AWS

Temporal

Kafka

Datadog

Sentry

PagerDuty

Cursor

Claude

Gemini

Eddy

Job description

Headway is hiring a Staff Engineer to own the core Revenue Engine payment and clearinghouse platforms. You will shape architecture, implement fault-tolerant integrations with Stripe and payer systems, and mentor multiple engineering pods.

You will lead by example with hands-on coding, drive reliability and observability, and push for scalable patterns that support a growing mental healthcare network. This role emphasizes impact and cross-team collaboration.