Senior Security Software Engineer, Headway
$163.5-230k
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Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
Open for applications
Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$163.5-230k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience across multiple (if not all) domains, such as infrastructure security, product security, application security, and/or data security
- Strong cross-functional experiences, building relationships and driving impactful projects
- The ability and drive to continuously educate yourself and others
- 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
- You enjoy tackling deep technical problems, sometimes operating as a leader of new security or engineering initiatives
- You want to instill a culture of secure development across engineering and partner across teams to embrace security as a part of normal development
- You’ll love this role if you want to:
- Change the trajectory of a startup striving to redefine access to mental health in America
- Work on a highly collaborative, cross-functional engineering team in order to build the best and most secure products for therapists, patients, physician and payer partners, and/or your teammates at Headway
- Help establish and engrain best practices throughout our organization
- Contribute to our engineering culture, processes, and documentation with the same thought and care that we do our software (one of our engineering cultural principles is “Everything is a Product”)
What the job involves
- As a member of Headway’s founding Security Engineering team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house Security engineering efforts
- In this role, you will partner with our Lead Security Engineer and Head of Infrastructure to design our next-generation security program, touching all aspects of Headway’s business and systems
- You will both technically and organizationally execute security projects ranging from practice changes to technical architecture to security infrastructure development to penetration testing
- 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
- Projects we’re working on:
- There is a lot that we're building at Headway, but here are a few projects to give you an idea of the problems we're tackling in security
- Infrastructure security: Building and implementing tools that monitor the security posture of our infrastructure and provide for more secure access in a scalable manner as we grow
- Application security: Building systems that provide guardrails and enable developers to do security
- Data security: Building systems and tools that monitor our data flows and access
Application 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 our Lead Security Engineer for introductions and an architecture interview
- Final rounds: You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews, including our Head of Infrastructure 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
1 in 4 US citizens are currently living with treatable mental health conditions, however, a vast majority of people are unable to access the care they need, the primary reason being cost. Headway connects clients with therapists who accept insurance as payment and provides independent practitioners with the tools and resources needed to serve their patients and manage administrative workloads.
Headway’s concept is timely, with national mental health under particular strain following events from the past few years. The company facilitates over 300,000 appointments per month and has attracted backing from the likes of Accel and Google Ventures.
Covering 16 states and the District of Columbia, the company intends to broaden its presence across the US using its 2023 Series C funding of $125 million. This is a crucial avenue for further growth, as medical care deserts across the US mean the potential market is vast.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Think future first
- Act like a Headway owner
- The first time is always handmade
- Be relationship-obsessed
- Invest in yourself to invest in our mission
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
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Leadership
Andrew Adams
(CEO)Worked as a Product Analyst at Spring, and was a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.
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