Headway
Healthcare
StaffBackendSoftwareEngineer(RevenueEngine)
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.
“Staff Backend Software Engineer (Revenue Engine) at Headway. Skills: Distributed systems, Platform engineering, Fault-tolerant systems, Payment systems. Set technical direction. Lead design of integrations”
What You'll Achieve.
Build foundational platform decisions; Ensure reliability at scale; Ensure throughput at scale; Ensure correctness at scale; Enable teams to ship faster; Enable teams to ship safer
Industry & Context.
Distributed systems problems; Concurrency; Idempotency; Partial failures; Ambiguous problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years backend software engineering, Experience with distributed systems, Experience with concurrency, Experience with idempotency, Experience with partial failures
Nice to Have
Prior healthcare experience not required, Experience with Stripe, Experience with Plaid, Experience with payer clearinghouses
What You'll Do.
Set technical direction
Lead design of integrations
Build abstractions and standards
Mentor senior engineers
Shape operational excellence
Apply craft to mission
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with engineering leadership; Work with adjacent engineering teams; Pull engineers into discussions; Share knowledge across team
Communication Scope
Design doc writing; Cross-team meetings
Full Job Description
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 care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that. But we're going further. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens. We're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, 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 Headway depends on the systems your teams own. As Headway's network grows — more patients, more providers, more payers, more transaction volume — the reliability, throughput, and correctness of these systems become t
Applying for this Staff Backend Software Engineer (Revenue Engine) role?
Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.
How to Apply on Greenhouse
- Create a Greenhouse profile before applying — it saves time across multiple applications.
- Upload your resume as a PDF; the parser handles it better than Word.
- Answer all knockout questions carefully — wrong answers auto-reject before a human sees you.
- Enable email notifications to track application status in real time.
ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED
What do employees actually say about Headway?
Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.