Staff Software Engineer (Payer)
Headway · Seattle, WA · 4 days ago
Engineering$264k–$330k/yrFull-time
The Work
- Payers & Outcomes: Sits at the intersection of ML, clinical quality, and trust. Builds intelligent systems to protect the integrity of the network, spot risk, surface quality signals, and provide real-time feedback to providers.
- Architect LLM-powered systems to review clinical documentation at scale and deliver helpful, real-time feedback to providers.
- Design ML/LLM systems to detect patterns of inappropriate billing, over-utilization, and low-quality care across millions of appointments and claims.
- Build systems to systematically review every prescriber in the network against clinical quality standards.
- Build ML systems to understand patient needs complexity and match them to providers best suited to help.
- Evaluate and iterate on AI systems to ensure reliability and safety in a regulated environment.
- Set the technical standard for the Payers & Outcomes group, optimize for maintainability and scale, and mentor the team.
Technical Foundations & Mentorship
- Ensure the technical bar for the Payers & Outcomes group is set high.
- Lay the architectural foundations for other teams to build on.
- Raise the engineering craft of the team as it scales.
Stack
- Languages: TypeScript, Python 3
- Frontend: React, Remix, Next.js
- Backend & Storage: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, Snowflake
- Infrastructure: AWS, Temporal, Kafka
- Operations: Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty
- AI Tools: Cursor, Claude, Gemini, Eddy (in-house cloud agent harness)