Staff Software Engineer - Insurance

The role

You will lead the design and implementation of systems powering insurance operations including patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims. You will build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and mentor engineers.

What you will do

• Lead design and implementation of systems that power insurance operations
• Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms that serve patients and providers
• Mentor engineers
• Write high-impact code at the intersection of healthcare data and payer operations
• Build ML models for price estimate accuracy
• Build OCR pipelines for insurance cards and eligibility checks
• Build claims AI agents to review and resubmit denied claims
• Build human-in-the-loop automation for credentialing processes

Required qualifications

• Platform thinker who creates abstractions for other teams
• Ability to find structure in messy payer data
• Hands-on coder
• Ability to own outcomes and turn ambiguous problems into shipped software
• Precise communicator

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
• Tech & Team Fit round including AI Coding and Hiring Manager Chat
• Final rounds with team members
• References and the offer

About the company

Headway is a Series D company with $325M+ in funding building a new mental healthcare system. They provide software for over 90,000 providers to manage insurance, claims, and practice operations.