Headway

Headway

Engineering Manager (Growth)

New York City

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$175kDetected 218 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsFastAPIExpressCode ReviewGitPostgreSQLRedisAWSDatadogKafkaMachine LearningSparkLLMsA/B TestingCybersecurityProduct ManagementProduct StrategySEOLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • This role sits at the intersection of growth, product development, and marketing.
  • This is an opportunity to tackle complex, rewarding problems in a highly collaborative, supportive environment that values technical excellence and operational rigor.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage an engineering team focused on growth
  • Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to build systems that enable rapid experimentation and long-term scale
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Data to rapidly iterate through A/B testing
  • Collaborate with activation and onboarding teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience from first touch to first appointment
  • Drive alignment across your team on process, prioritization, and product outcomes
  • Develop and grow your team through weekly 1-1s, mentorship, and feedback
  • Work with and help develop aspiring engineering leaders within the engineering team
  • Help build out our engineering team as our headcount grows from 120 to 175+ through the remainder of the year
  • We expect our engineering managers to remain active technical contributors - pairing with engineers, driving key design decisions, and personally owning select deliverables. You'll lead through doing, not just directing.
  • Leads Teams into the AI Era: You don't just tolerate AI tools - you actively shape how your team uses them.

Requirements

  • You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager at a high-growth startup or scale-up, building and leading high performing teams that have effectively delivered business outcomes through technical investments
  • You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
  • You have a strong technical foundation that allows you to ensure your team is making appropriate technical decisions

Nice to have

  • Prior experience with SEO and paid advertising
  • Prior experience with Python and React and working with AWS infrastructure
  • BS, MS in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience applying AI/ML to growth contexts - personalization, intelligent routing, LLM-powered content, or experimentation at scale
  • Initial screen: You'll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway's mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background.
  • First rounds: You'll meet with an engineering leader on the team to go deeper into your team and people leadership experiences.

Skills

  • Cursor, Claude, Gemini, Eddy (our in-house cloud agent harness)
  • The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare.
  • Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients.
  • Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.
  • About Engineering at Headway
  • FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Remix, Next.js

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • Work-from-Home Stipend
  • Therapy Reimbursement
  • 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
  • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
  • 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
  • In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for 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.

Company info

  • 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 a critical leadership role for Headway and our mission to make mental healthcare more accessible.
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