# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Headway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/headway)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $223k – $279k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Sqlalchemy, React, Remix, Next.js, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Spark, Apache Kafka, Datadog, Pagerduty, Sentry
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads the Data Safety engineering team responsible for de-identification, privacy, compliance, access controls, and safe handling of sensitive healthcare data. The role requires engineering management experience, software engineering depth, and familiarity with data platforms and privacy systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and grow the Data Safety engineering team.
- Own delivery on privacy and compliance commitments, including audit evidence.
- Set the technical and operational roadmap across de-identification, data access tiers, entitlements, and LLM data handling.
- Develop the team through weekly 1:1s, mentorship, and direct feedback, and grow a tech-lead layer.
- Partner with Security, Privacy and Compliance, Legal, Data Platform, and product teams to move quickly and safely.
- Contribute to broader group and company strategy.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering management experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up.
- 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
- Track record of building and leading high-performing teams that delivered business outcomes through technical investment.
- Strong product mindset and cross-functional relationship-building skills.
- Experience shipping under compliance or audit pressure.
- Comfort with data platform and privacy systems, including access control, data classification, pipelines, and de-identification.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience in healthcare, financial services, or another regulated, high-trust domain.
- HIPAA de-identification, tokenization, differential privacy, or data governance tooling.
- Experience with Python, React, and AWS infrastructure.

## Benefits and compensation
- ATS-listed salary range: $222,800–$278,500.
- Series D company with more than $325 million in funding.

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