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 34,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software. 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.
As a member of Headway’s founding Security Engineering team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house Security engineering efforts. In this role, you will partner with our Lead Security Engineer and Head of Infrastructure to design our next-generation security program, touching all aspects of Headway’s business and systems. You will both technically and organizationally execute security projects ranging from practice changes to technical architecture to security infrastructure development to penetration testing. We're looking for security-focused engineers with software engineering experience who are excited to tackle security challenges in partnership with our core product teams.
Tools we use:
- Lacework
- : Python 3, TypeScript
- : FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React
- : Postgres, Redis
- : AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka
- : Datadog, PagerDuty
- : Github
- Snyk, Semgrep
Projects we’re working on:
There is a lot that we're building at Headway, but here are a few projects to give you an idea of the problems we're tackling in security.
- Building and implementing tools that monitor the security posture of our infrastructure and provide for more secure access in a scalable manner as we grow.
- Building systems that provide guardrails and enable developers to do security
- Building systems and tools that monitor our data flows and access.
Who you are:
- You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level.
- You are excited to perform security design and code reviews.
- You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability.
- You enjoy tackling deep technical problems, sometimes operating as a leader of new security or engineering initiatives.
- You want to instill a culture of secure development across engineering and partner across teams to embrace security as a part of normal development.
Experience we’re seeking:
- 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles with a demonstrated history of working on security-related projects or with responsibilities as a security generalist
- Experience across multiple (if not all) domains, such as infrastructure security, product security, application security, and/or data security
- Strong cross-functional experiences, building relationships and driving impactful projects
- The ability and drive to continuously educate yourself and others
You’ll love this role if you want to:
- Change the trajectory of a startup striving to redefine access to mental health in America
- Work on a highly collaborative, cross-functional engineering team in order to build the best and most secure products for therapists, patients, physician and payer partners, and/or your teammates at Headway
- Help establish and engrain best practices throughout our organization
- Contribute to our engineering culture, processes, and documentation with the same thought and care that we do our software (one of our engineering cultural principles is “Everything is a Product”)
After you apply to Headway, here are some details of what to expect during the interview process.
- : You’ll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway’s mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background.
- You'll meet with our Lead Security Engineer for introductions and an architecture interview.
- You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews, including our Head of Infrastructure who this role reports to, and leave with a fuller picture of what it’s like to work at Headway.
- Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!
- Salary information is based on a single salary target per role:
- The starting salary for Security Engineers is $152,000 and increases to $230,000 based on industry tenure and experience.
- Benefits offered include:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development
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We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience.
Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected]
Headway employees work remotely across the US, with the option to work from offices in New York City and San Francisco. Headway participates in E-Verify. To learn more, click here.
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What We Do
Headway is building a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
We all know someone that has struggled with mental health - 1 in 4 people have a treatable mental health condition - but the overwhelming majority don’t get the care they need. The primary reason is cost - seventy percent of therapists don’t accept insurance, meaning paying for therapy is usually very, very expensive.
Headway is building the first national, virtual network of therapists who accept insurance, helping providers to expand their practices, and individuals to finally find a therapist they can afford. And we’re doing it all through software.
We launched in April of 2019 and are already powering thousands of therapy appointments every single day. To scale our mission, we’ve raised funding from the world’s preeminent VCs (backers of Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Uber, Oscar) as well as the nation’s most innovative healthcare entrepreneurs (founders of One Medical, Flatiron Health, and Clover Health).
We believe a team's strength is in its people. Headway is solving a national problem of affordability, and we know this cannot be achieved without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem - across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and experience.
Join us, and make an impact.
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Employees work remotely.
We are a remote first company with the option to work out of our New York City headquarters.