Engineering Manager leading a Data Safety team focused on de-identification and privacy-compliant data handling for sensitive mental health records
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.
Engineering Manager, Data Safety 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!).
About this role Headway's mission is to build a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access. The data we hold to do that is some of the most sensitive there is: what someone said in therapy. Data Safety is the team that makes it possible to learn from that data without putting the people in it at risk. As Engineering Manager for Data Safety, you'll lead that team. Protecting patient data is Headway's first priority, ahead of any roadmap, and that is not a slogan here: it is the constraint every other team designs around. Your job is to turn that constraint into something people can build on rather than something they route around. The upside is enormous. With tens of thousands of providers and millions of sessions, Headway holds what is very likely the richest picture of real mental health care anywhere in the world. Remarkably little is known at scale about which care helps whom, and we are sitting on the data that could answer it. The blocker has never been curiosity, it is having a safe way in. The core of that is de-identification: removing the person from the record while keeping the clinical signal, and getting the method certified so the whole company can rely on it. You'll grow and mentor a team of roughly five to eight engineers, set the roadmap for the pod, and work closely with Security, Legal, Compliance, Data, and the product teams that depend on you. The bar is high. We have to be able to stand behind how we handle this data to a regulator, to a payer, and to the patient it came from. Get that right and what your team ships sets the ceiling on how much Headway can learn, and on how many people we can help.
Who you are We're looking for an engineering leader who is pragmatic, product-minded about platform work, and energized by growth. You'll work closely with Engineering Leadership, Security, Legal, and Data to shape how Headway handles its most sensitive data.
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