Staff iOS Engineer

Headway•Seattle, WA

1d•$224,000 - $280,000

About The Position

Headway’s mission is a big one – to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance. 1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the majority of providers don’t accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice. Headway was founded in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 60,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better. About engineering at Headway Building a new mental healthcare system at Headway is only possible because of the scale and leverage that software can provide. The engineering team at Headway is a small but mighty team using technology to build that future (and have a fun time while doing it!) Principles that guide us: Focus on the mission: We view software as a means of effecting change in the world, not as an end unto itself. We write software to empower our patients and therapists to better solve the problems they’re facing. Ship small, learn fast: We are building new and novel products and believe that we learn what our users need by quickly shipping and iteration Everything is a product: Whether it's our patient search experience or a developer productivity improvement, we treat everything we build at Headway as a product with end-users in mind. Optimize for trust: We believe that engineers should be continually learning. To learn effectively and to be productive, engineers must feel safe asking questions and discussing mistakes. Tools we use: Languages: Swift, Python 3, TypeScript Libraries & Frameworks: SwiftUI, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Remix, Next.js Datastores: Postgres, Redis Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry Version Control: Github, PagerDuty About the role We are looking for a Staff iOS Engineer to lead how we design, build, and ship mobile applications at Headway. This role will help establish Headway’s approach to mobile engineering by defining architecture, development, testing, and release best practices. At the same time, it will directly own and deliver our first ever patient-facing mobile app, launching first on iOS. This is a hands on technical leadership role. You will write production code, set up tooling and processes, and partner closely with engineering, product, design, and data leaders to build a best-in-class mobile app. Additionally, you will play a key role in building out the mobile team. Who you are We are looking for a Staff level engineer who thrives in ambiguity and is excited to learn new technologies and systems. You care about building high impact products, you think in systems, and you raise the bar for the people around you.

Requirements

You have real world experience building iOS applications and defining release and testing processes.
You aren’t overly dogmatic about technology choices: you want to move quickly and use the best tool for the job, defaulting to Swift and SwiftUI but leveraging webviews and other approaches when needed.
You care deeply about craft and usability, and you obsess about your end users.
You have current or past experience with full stack web development, and don’t shy away from working across other parts of the stack when needed.
You shape technical work to achieve company and team goals, not just local optimizations.
You are willing to flex into new technical and non technical areas as projects require.
You have driven technical vision and strategy at the organizational level through technical design documents, reviews, and participation in planning cycles.
You have led major technical initiatives that required coordination across multiple teams and stakeholders.
You regularly mentor senior engineers and technical leaders and help set technical direction through influence rather than authority.
You are comfortable partnering with engineers, product managers, designers, clinicians, and legal or compliance partners to translate complex domain needs into well designed, performant applications.
You leverage AI coding tools in your day-to-day workflow.

Benefits

Equity compensation
Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
HSA / FSA
401K
Work-from-Home Stipend
Therapy Reimbursement
16-week parental leave for eligible employees
Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
Flexible PTO
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Training and professional development