# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Headway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/headway)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $223k – $223k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** backend engineering, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Workflow Orchestration, Data Pipelines, financial systems, Payments, billing, healthcare claims, edi, Observability, Data Modeling, Incident Response, on-call
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Leads an engineering team responsible for Headway’s revenue and financial systems, driving technical direction, correctness, reliability, and automation. The role requires engineering management experience, backend and distributed-systems depth, and experience with high-integrity domains such as payments, billing, or claims.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead an engineering team end-to-end, including hiring, developing people, and setting team culture.
- Co-own the roadmap for a core surface of Headway's financial systems with a product partner.
- Set technical direction across architecture, build-versus-buy decisions, reliability targets, and data modeling.
- Define correctness and operability metrics, improve observability, lead incident response and on-call, and automate manual work.
- Partner with Revenue Engine, platform, Finance, Accounting, Product, Data, and Operations teams.
- Own systems supporting claims transmission and payer-response processing, or billing orchestration and immutable financial snapshots.

## Requirements
- **3+ years** of experience as an Engineering Manager building and leading teams that delivered business outcomes through technical investment.
- **3–5+ years** of experience as a Software Engineer.
- Backend and distributed-systems depth, including event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, or high-reliability data pipelines.
- Experience leading work where correctness and data integrity were non-negotiable, such as financial systems, payments, billing, claims, or similarly consequential domains.
- Ability to define correctness in ambiguous domains, establish metrics, instrument systems, and adapt as inputs and volume change.
- Strong prioritization and roadmap judgment for sequencing work against clear metrics and dependencies.
- Technical credibility in architecture and design reviews.
- Experience partnering with non-engineering stakeholders in operations, finance, or compliance.

## Nice to Have
- Healthcare claims experience.
- EDI or clearinghouse experience.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: **$222,800**

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