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Headway

Staff Backend Software Engineer (Revenue Engine)

AI summary of the role

Staff Backend Engineer on the Revenue Engine team, responsible for the platform that moves money between patients, providers, and payers at Headway.

What you’ll do

  • Set technical direction across Payment Platform and Clearinghouse Platform teams, owning integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and payer clearinghouses.
  • Design fault-tolerant, observable, and deeply reconciled integrations with third-party services.
  • Build abstractions and standards that let dozens of adjacent engineering teams ship faster and more safely on top of the platform.
  • Write code where leverage is highest, mentor senior engineers across both pods, and shape operational excellence.

What you’ll bring

  • End-to-end product builder who cares about API architecture and user experience.
  • Proven ability to turn ambiguous problems into shipped software and define solutions across teams.
  • Sets technical standards that optimize for maintainability and scale, improving engineering velocity.
  • Mentors by default, pulling engineers into design discussions and teaching through code reviews.

Technologies

TypeScript · Python 3 · React · Remix · Next.js · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · Postgres · Redis · Snowflake · AWS · Temporal

About Headway

Headway helps therapists and psychiatrists accept insurance, run their practices, and receive referrals while helping patients and health plans access in-network mental healthcare faster.

Series D · 500–1000 people

Source and classification

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Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better. The Work The Revenue Engine Team is making the foundational platform decisions that will shape how Headway moves money — between patients, providers, and payers — at the scale our growing network demands. As one of two staff engineers in the group, you'll partner with engineering leadership to set technical direction across our Payment Platform and Clearinghouse Platform teams: the systems responsible for our integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and the payer clearinghouses that our claims flow through. This is platform work in the truest sense. Every payment that's charged or paid out, every claim that's filed and reconciled, every dollar that flows through
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