Manager, Security Engineering

Headways mission is a big one to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. Weve 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 dont 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 weve grown into a diverse national network of over 60000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. Were 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 the role:

Reporting to Headways Director of Security youll have the opportunity to build and grow a world-class engineering team focused on securing the products and applications that powers Headway. Youll own our approach to application security secure software development and product-integrated security strategy across all aspects of Headways services systems and user experiences.

Your team will be responsible for driving application-layer and product security efforts at scale. Youll lead the development of security features tooling and programs that enable our product and engineering teams to ship secure code and protect sensitive data throughout the software development lifecycle. Youll build and grow a pod through strategic planning recruiting/hiring people development leading high-impact initiatives and reporting on outcomes.

Your work will be deeply cross-functional partnering closely with product platform and core engineering teams. Youll help teams bake security into product design introduce secure-by-default tools and practices and enable scalable threat modeling secure coding and proactive vulnerability management. Youll also collaborate with IT infrastructure and compliance teams to align product security goals with broader organizational risk and trust objectives.

What youll do:

• Own Headways application and product security strategy setting the vision and roadmap for securing all customer- and provider-facing experiences.
• Build a best-in-class application security program that embeds secure development practices into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) including threat modeling secure code reviews and automated security testing.
• Drive initiatives to improve security visibility and response within our products including user-access controls sensitive data handling and in-app protections.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and mitigate risks in new features third-party integrations and architectural decisions. Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams fostering a culture of ownership accountability and security best practices.
• Build tools workflows and documentation that help engineers write secure code and own their security responsibilities.
• Create a highly engaged operationally and technically excellent engineering culture within your pod.
• Align product and platform engineering teams to security goals with regulatory privacy and compliance requirements; collaborating closely with privacy legal and compliance teams.
• Support production incident response processes in partnership with engineering and Trust teams helping to triage remediate and learn from security events.

You will love this role if:

• Youve managed or led security engineering teams and are excited to build and grow one from the ground up.
• You have a strong background in application security and secure development practices and have partnered closely with engineering teams.
• You enjoy enabling developers to build safely and quickly through secure-by-default tooling and clear guidance.
• Youre comfortable working across domainsfrom product design to AWS infrastructureusing security as a force multiplier.
• You thrive in highly collaborative environments and care deeply about empowering teams to do their best work securely.
• Youre motivated by Headways mission to make mental healthcare more accessible and want to make a positive impact through security.

Tools We Use:

• Languages: Python 3 TypeScript
• Frameworks & Libraries: FastAPI React/Remix SQLAlchemy
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (ECS RDS S3) Kafka
• Security Tooling: Semgrep Wiz Expel Datadog
• Access Management: Okta Auth0 Teleport
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Datadog PagerDuty
• Source Control: GitHub
• WAF & Networking: Cloudflare

Our interview process

After you apply to Headway here are some details of what to expect during the interview process.

• Initial screen: Youll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team Headways mission and exciting growth and we can get a better idea of your background.
• First rounds:Youll meet with an engineering leader on the team to go deeper into your team and people leadership experiences and complete one technical (systems design) interview.
• Final rounds: Youll meet team members across product and engineering leadership for multiple behavioral interviews leaving you with a fuller picture of what its like to work at Headway.
• References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! Well send over all of the details including specifics on employee equity and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!

Compensation and Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $227000 - $267000 based on a variety of factors including qualifications experience and geographic addition to base salary this role may be eligible for performance-based variable compensation and an equity grant depending on the position and level.

We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package including robust health and wellness benefits retirement savings and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

Benefits offered include:

• 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

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We believe a teams strength is in its people and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem across race ethnicity gender sexuality age national origin religion family status disability military status and experience.

Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.

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