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Staff Software Engineer (Payer)

Headway · San Francisco, CA · 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 give providers real-time feedback.
  • 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.
  • Build systems to measure and elevate clinical quality, ensuring adherence to clinical quality standards.
  • Build ML systems to understand patient complexity and match them to the best-suited providers.
  • Evaluate and iterate on AI systems to ensure reliability and safety in a regulated environment.
  • Set the technical standard for the Payers & Outcomes group, optimizing for maintainability and scale.

Who You Are

  • End-to-end product builder: Seamless context-switching between backend logic and frontend state management.
  • Owes outcomes, not tasks: Defines solutions, pulls in the right people, and keeps things moving when priorities shift.
  • Makes technical decisions that optimize for maintainability and scale, not just shipping speed.
  • Mentor by default: Pulls engineers into design discussions, teaches through code reviews, ensures knowledge sharing across the team.
  • Ships fast, iterates faster: Quickly moves from problem statement to working solution, prioritizing real feedback over perfection.
  • Quickly studies complex domains: Dives into unfamiliar areas to build a working mental model fast.
  • Motivated by impact: Wants engineering skills applied to impactful problems, particularly mental healthcare access.
  • Communicates with precision: Clearly and concisely communicates in various contexts.
  • AI frontier tinkerer: Experimentally applies LLMs to real workflows, pushing their limits.

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