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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)

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