Senior Security Engineer, Headway
Product
$218.5-273.1k
+ Equity
Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
Open for applications
Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$218.5-273.1k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
Role
Who you are
- Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles with a demonstrated history of working on security-related projects or with responsibilities as a security generalist
- Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals
- Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You are excited to perform security design and code reviews. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability
- Thrive in ambiguity: You love tackling ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with an optimistic and energizing attitude
- Innovation at Scale: You seek opportunities to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies
- Results driven: You care deeply about creating impact and driving results for Headway’s business
- Mission driven: You are motivated by Headway’s mission, increasing access to high quality mental health care
What the job involves
- The Trust team at Headway is focused on security and privacy for all of Headway’s customers - therapists, patients, and payers (ex: insurance companies and health systems)
- As an early member on the team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house product and application security engineering efforts
- In this role, you will partner closely with our product and engineering teams to ensure that our application is designed and developed securely so that we can maintain and grow customers’ trust in Headway
- Partner with Product and Engineering: Headway has many new product launches on the horizon that will transform the industry and have a rich data component. You will be a partner at both the design and development stage to ensure that we implement new features securely, including (but not limited to):
- Participating in the implementation efforts
- Doing security reviews
- Helping with product design decisions
- Auditing and surfacing vulnerabilities in our current products
- Develop and Improve our Automated Tooling: Further enhance our automated tooling to scale our application security capabilities and find potential code problems both before and after we deploy
- Make the safe way, the easy way: Work on defining and building application guardrails so that developers can build securely by default. You also will work to instill a culture of secure development across engineering
- Assist in ongoing security operations: You will be part of the security and privacy team and have responsibilities to assist in incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and other operational tasks to ensure that our security program is operating at a world-class level
- Tools we use:
- Cloud Security: Lacework
- Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
- Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React
- Datastores: Postgres, Redis
- Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka
- Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
- Version Control: Github
- Vulnerability Management: Snyk, Semgrep
Application process
- After you apply to Headway, here are some details of what to expect during the interview process
- Initial screen: You’ll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway’s mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background
- First round: You'll meet with a member of our Security Engineering team for introductions and an architecture interview. Conducted similarly to a System Design interview, we’ll learn more about your knowledge of the role of security in engineering systems and web architecture
- Final rounds: You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews, including our CISO who this role reports to, and leave with a fuller picture of what it’s like to work at Headway
- References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!
Our take
In the US, 1 in 4 citizens are living with treatable mental health conditions. But a vast majority of people are unable to access the care they need, often due to cost. Headway connects clients with therapists who accept insurance as payment, and provides independent practitioners with the tools and resources needed to both serve their patients and manage administrative workloads.
Headway’s concept is timely, with national mental health under particular strain following recent events. The company facilitates over 600,000 appointments per month and has attracted backing from the likes of Accel and Google Ventures. It is working to broaden its presence across the US while building out its product and pursuing the application of AI in health care.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$125m
SERIES C
Total funding: $327m
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Adams
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Headway in 2017, Andrew was a Product Analyst at Spring Inc.
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