Headway
Senior Engineering Manager (Network Value + Outcomes)
$265K–$332K
New York City +2 · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- New York City
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA - Experience
- 6+ years of engineering management; 3–5+ years as a software engineer.
- Visa sponsorship
- Participates in E-Verify.
About the job
Leads the Network Value and Outcomes engineering teams building measurement and utilization systems that help Headway and payers assess care outcomes, cost, and patient routing.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow two engineering teams, including mentoring an engineering manager and setting technical and operational roadmaps.
- Own delivery of a company-level outcomes goal and its quality and adoption guardrails.
- Partner with Product, Clinical, Data Science, and Commercial teams on measurement, segmentation, and utilization systems.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of engineering management experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up, including managing managers or tech leads.
- 3–5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Track record of leading high-performing teams to business outcomes through technical investment.
- Experience owning an externally committed metric; comfort with data- and ML-heavy systems, measurement, experimentation, and metric guardrails.
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated, high-trust domain; value-based care, quality measurement, or utilization management.
- Prior experience with Python, React, and AWS infrastructure.
Pay
$265,200 - 331,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python 3, TypeScript, React, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Spark, Kafka
AI focus
AI is part of the interview’s collaborative coding round, which evaluates working with AI tools in a technical context. The role builds data- and ML-heavy measurement and targeting systems.
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