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.