Engineering Manager (Network Orchestration)

Headways mission is a big one to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. Weve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance.

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition but the majority of providers dont accept insurance making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice.

Headway was founded in 2019. Since then weve grown into a diverse national network of over 60000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. Were a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) Accel GV (formerly Google Ventures) Spark Capital Thrive Capital Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.

We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us and help change mental healthcare for the better.

About Engineering at Headway

Building a new mental healthcare system at Headway is only possible because of the scale and leverage that software can provide. The engineering team at Headway is a small (200) but mighty team using technology to build that future (and have a fun time while doing it!).

Principles that guide us :

• Focus on the mission : We view software as a means of effecting change in the world not as an end unto itself. We write software to empower our patients and therapist to better solve the problems theyre facing.
• Ship small learn fast : We are building new and novel products and believe that we learn what our users need by quickly shipping and iteration
• Everything is a product : Whether its our patient search experience or a developer productivity improvement we treat everything we build at Headway as a product with end-users in mind.
• Optimize for trust : We believe that engineers should be continually learning. To learn effectively and to be productive engineers must feel safe asking questions and discussing mistakes.

Tools we use :

About the role

Headways mission is to build a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access one that works for patients providers and payers alike. The Network Orchestration domain sits at the heart of that mission developing the intelligence that helps insurance companies (payers) understand their networks and ensure every patient receives care thats appropriate effective and aligned with their needs.

As the Engineering Manager for Network Orchestration youll lead the team building our patient and provider segmentation systems the foundation for how we understand who our patients are what care they need and which providers are best positioned to help them. This work enables payers to deliver higher-quality care through better visibility proactive care matching and a more holistic understanding of their network.

Youll collaborate closely with Product Data Science and Clinical teams to transform complex behavioral and clinical data into insights that improve access experience and outcomes. This is a deeply cross-functional and mission-critical role shaping how Headway helps payers move from administrative oversight to true care be responsible for growing and mentoring a team of engineers setting the technical and operational roadmap and ensuring we build scalable systems that empower more personalized data-informed mental healthcare at scale.

Were looking for experienced engineering team leaders and people managers who are product-minded data-informed and energized by growth. As an Engineering Manager at Headway you will work closely with Engineering Leadership Product and Data to shape the future of our payer strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate mission-aligned engineering leader to make an immediate impact at a high-growth company.

What youll do

Who you are

Our interview process

After you apply to Headway here are some details of what to expect during the interview process.

Compensation and Benefits :

The expected base pay range for this position is $198050 - $233000 based on a variety of factors including qualifications experience and geographic addition to base salary this role may be eligible for performance-based variable compensation and an equity grant depending on the position and level.

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package including robust health and wellness benefits retirement savings and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

We believe a teams strength is in its people and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem across race ethnicity gender sexuality age national origin religion family status disability military status and experience.

Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and / or receive other benefits and privileges of employment please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.

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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Hospitality Experience,Go,Management Experience,React,Redux,Node.js,AWS,Mechanical Engineering,Team Management,Leadership Experience,Mentoring,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 198050 - 233000