Software Engineer, Frontend

Position: Staff Software Engineer, Frontend
Overview

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.

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 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 therapists to better solve the problems they’re 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 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:
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:

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Languages:

Python 3, Type Script

• Libraries & Frameworks:
FastAPI, React, Remix, Next.js, React Aria

• Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka

• Version Control:
Github, Pager Duty

The role:

The Staff Frontend Engineer on the Patient team will play a central role in shaping the future of the patient experience  will architect the patient application to deliver magical, intuitive, and performant user experiences while driving the most complex and impactful frontend projects for Headway’s most important audience: patients.

In this role, you will:

• Scope and lead proof-of-concept experiences such as conversational AI, mobile-first web apps, experimental matching flows, and tools that guide patients through their care journey.

• Set the standard for frontend excellence by defining reusable component patterns, testing strategies, accessibility practices, and close integration with our design system.

• Partner deeply with product and design to shape zero-to-one patient experiences that balance usability, scalability, and speed.

• Push the boundaries of what a web application can do by focusing on performance, responsiveness, and cross-device experience.

This is a high-impact, fast-moving role in one of the most direct user-facing areas of the company.

Who you are

We’re looking for experienced frontend engineers who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about user experience, and can push both the craft and impact of engineering forward.

For all engineers:

• Experience working on modern web applications with React or similar frameworks.

• Shaped work to achieve company and team goals

• Flexed into new technical and non-technical areas as projects require

• Committed team member supporting the growth of those around them

For staff engineers:

• Architected complex systems spanning multiple technical domains or product…