Staff Software Engineer, Insurance Platform

Headway; United States; Remote; USD 224,000 - 336,000; Full time

Job summary

Headway is building a platform to make mental healthcare accessible and affordable across the United States. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Insurance) to lead the design and implementation of systems that power our insurance operations, including patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims processing.

You will work across all 50 states, 1,000+ payers, and millions of appointments, building ML-powered, data-driven infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Lead design and implementation of systems powering insurance operations.
• Build data-intensive ML-powered platforms for patients and providers.
• Mentor engineers and write high-impact code at the intersection of healthcare data and payer operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of systems powering insurance operations—patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims.
• Build data-intensive ML-powered platforms that serve patients and providers and learn from every visit.

Skills

Platform thinker

Signal in messy data

Hands-on

Own outcomes

Communicate with precision

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 building a platform to make mental healthcare accessible and affordable across the United States. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Insurance) to lead the design and implementation of systems that power our insurance operations, including patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims processing.

You will work across all 50 states, 1,000+ payers, and millions of appointments, building ML-powered, data-driven infrastructure.