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Staff Software Engineer - Insurance
Headway
Remote, USA
Full-time
Senior
Remote
USD 224000-336000 yearly / year
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The Insurance team is the backbone of Headway's business. We deliver the two core promises of the platform: affordable therapy covered by insurance for patients, and a simple way to run a therapy practice for providers. Every appointment on Headway flows through systems our team owns — from identifying whether a patient is eligible, to estimating their cost, to matching them with a provider, to submitting a clean claim.
This is a deep and wide problem. We operate across all 50 states, 1,000+ payers, and millions of appointments every month. There's a lot of data to make sense of and signal to find in the noise. As Headway's network grows — more patients, more providers, more payers — the accuracy, reliability, and automation of these systems become the difference between a business that scales and one that doesn't.
As a staff engineer in the group, you will lead design and implementation of the systems that power Headway's insurance operations — patient identification, pricing estimates, provider matching, and claims. Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms that serve patients and providers and learn from every visit, mentor engineers, and write high-impact code at the intersection of healthcare data and payer operations.
Some examples of what that work looks like in practice:
Building a new ML model that lifted price estimate accuracy by 10+ percentage points, getting tens of thousands of patients a better estimate ahead of their first session
An OCR pipeline to read patient insurance cards, automate eligibility checks, and run ML models to detect complex insurance arrangements — improving onboarding and first-claim success rates
A claims AI agent that reviews denied claims, identifies root causes, and resubmits autonomously — recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars and proving we can build self-healing systems at scale
A human-in-the-loop automation that transformed a 20-step manual credentialing process in Google Sheets into an average of 2 days and 1 task — with a record of 6 seconds start to finish — enabling providers to onboard faster and expand their reach to new patients
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