Engineering Manager San Francisco, California,

New York, New York, United States;
San Francisco, California, United States;
Seattle, Washington, United States

Headway’s mission is a big one – to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve 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 don’t 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, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 60,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. We’re 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.

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 (~120) but mighty team using technology to build that future (and have a fun time while doing it!).

• 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 they’re facing.
• Ship small, learn fast
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  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
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  Whether it's 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
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  We believe that engineers should be continually learning. To learn effectively and to be productive, engineers must feel safe asking questions and discussing mistakes.

• Languages
  :
  Python 3, Type Script
• Libraries & Frameworks
  :
  FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, React, Remix, Next.js
• Infrastructure
  : AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka
• Version Control
  :
  Github, Pager Duty
• Vulnerability Management
  :
  Snyk, Semgrep

This role sits at the intersection of growth, product development, and marketing. You’ll have the freedom to innovate and experiment while collaborating with a diverse group of cross-functional partners from across the company. This is an opportunity to tackle complex, rewarding problems in a highly collaborative, supportive environment that values technical excellence and operational rigor. You’ll build systems that help patients discover and access mental health care, directly improving lives and transforming the healthcare landscape.

Your work in this role will shape how thousands of patients connect with care, making a lasting impact on Headway’s mission to reimagine mental healthcare access for all.

As an engineering leader at Headway, you will be responsible for leading and growing the team behind these core growth initiatives through people development, strategic planning, and hands-on technical support. You’ll play a leading role in defining what and how these systems are built, setting up how the team operates, and ultimately driving best-in-class experiences that convert interest into action.

This is a critical leadership role for Headway and our mission to make mental healthcare more accessible. We are hiring two Engineering Managers for each of our existing Growth pods:
Provider Growth and Patient Growth
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