Senior Engineering Manager (Network Value + Outcomes)

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. Senior Engineering Manager, Payer & Outcomes 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 iterating. 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: Languages: Python 3, TypeScript Libraries & Frameworks: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Remix, Next.js Datastores: Postgres, Redis Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, SageMaker and more), Spark and Kafka Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry Version Control: Github Vulnerability Management: Snyk, Semgrep Cloud Security: Lacework About this role Headway's mission is to build a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access, one that works for patients, providers, and payers alike. Our Payer & Outcomes group is where we prove that model works. We build the systems that answer two questions insurers have never been able to answer well: did the care actually work, and was it worth it? As Senior Engineering Manager for Payer & Outcomes, you'll lead the two teams that answer them. Outcomes builds our measurement backbone: collecting patient-reported outcomes at scale, tracking symptom improvement and retention to care, and turning that into evidence we can stand behind. Network Value builds the intelligence behind utilization and cost of care, covering patient acuity and segmentation, provider efficiency ranking, and the sub-network logic that routes a patient to the right level of care. These two teams share data foundations, a measurement stack, and an audience, which is why they sit together under one leader. You'll own delivery on a company-level goal we have publicly committed to: significantly increasing the share of new patients with a baseline outcome measure, without increasing provider churn. That means holding quality and adoption in tension rather than trading one for the other. You'll grow and mentor a team of roughly eight engineers plus an engineering manager, set the technical and operational roadmap across both pods, and partner daily with Product, Clinical, Data Science, and our payer-facing commercial teams. This is a deeply cross-functional role: your work is what lets Headway move payers from administrative oversight to genuine care partnership. The stakes here are concrete. Elsewhere in the group we now review clinical notes and prompt providers to put a safety plan in place when a patient shows signs of suicidal risk. At full adoption across our network, that single intervention is estimated to prevent more than 1,000 deaths a year. Your teams build the measurement and targeting layer that decides where interventions like that get aimed, and whether we can prove they worked.