Software Engineer, Payer
Staff Software Engineer role at Headway, building a new mental healthcare system with a focus on technology and insurance integration, using key technologies such as Python, Node.js, Machine Learning, and AWS.
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!).
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At Headway , we treat infrastructure and developer experience as force multipliers. Our teams work on high-leverage problems at the intersection of scale, healthcare complexity, and real-world impact—often without the safety net of large, fully staffed orgs. What makes this work unique is that, as the largest
Posted June 7, 2026