Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform

The role

You will lead a small team of five frontend engineers and own the vision for how Headway builds UI. You will set the strategy for the design system and web architecture while acting as the voice of frontend engineering.

What you will do

• Hire and grow a team of five senior frontend engineers
• Set the strategy for the design system and web architecture
• Set the roadmap with Design and Engineering Foundations leadership
• Stay close to the code by opening PRs and using AI tools
• Evolve the Helix design system with Design leadership
• Own frameworks, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and maintainability
• Build automated checks and agent reviews for Agentic UI
• Grow the frontend guild at Headway
• Decide priorities and headcount for the team

Required qualifications

• Career built in frontend
• Former senior or staff frontend engineer
• Deep experience with React and the modern web
• Led a frontend platform, design system, or web architecture team
• Managed engineers for 3+ years
• Experience hiring, growing senior engineers, and managing performance
• Use AI every day
• Shipped code with AI tools in the last six months
• Ability to explain the value of platform work to product teams and executives
• Ability to build alignment across product teams with competing priorities

Nice to have

• Led a frontend platform, design system, or web architecture team ideally at a fast-growing company

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• HSA/FSA
• 401(k) including match for 2027!
• Carrot Fertility reimbursement
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Paid caregiver leave

Before you apply

• Initial screen with recruiting
• Frontend AI coding interview
• Behavioral interviews on people leadership and partnership with Design
• Product sense interview
• Frontend technical interviews on system design and technical depth

About the company

Headway is a Series D company building a new mental healthcare system. They provide software for over 90,000 providers to manage their practices and serve over 2.6 million patients.