# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Headway](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/headway)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $190k – $238k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, Sqlalchemy, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Spark, Kafka
**Posted:** 2025-12-15

> Lead and grow an engineering team building growth systems that help providers discover and join Headway's mental healthcare platform. Drive experimentation, A/B testing, and AI-powered acquisition tools while remaining hands-on technically.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and manage an engineering team focused on growth
- Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders to build systems that enable rapid experimentation and long-term scale
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, Data to rapidly iterate through A/B testing
- Collaborate with activation and onboarding teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end user experience from first touch to first appointment
- Drive alignment across your team on process, prioritization, and product outcomes
- Develop and grow your team through weekly 1-1s, mentorship, and feedback
- Work with and help develop aspiring engineering leaders within the engineering team
- Contribute to the broader company strategy and product roadmap
- Help build out our engineering team as our headcount grows from 120 to 175+
- Remain active technical contributors — pairing with engineers, driving key design decisions, and personally owning select deliverables
- Shape how the team uses AI tools: AI-assisted code review, LLM-powered features, rethinking workflows to automate

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager at a high-growth startup or scale-up
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong product mindset and cross-functional relationship building
- Strong technical foundation to guide team technical decisions
- Flexible and adaptable; comfortable with rapid iteration and dynamic growth roadmaps
- Energized by experimentation and growth; balance short-term learning with long-term scale

## Nice to Haves
- Prior experience with SEO and paid advertising
- Prior experience with Python and React and working with AWS infrastructure
- Experience in health tech, building user-facing products
- Experience applying AI/ML to products

## Tools & Technologies
- Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
- Frameworks: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Remix, Next.js
- Datastores: Postgres, Redis
- Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3), Spark, Kafka
- Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry
- AI Tools: Cursor, Claude, Gemini

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