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.

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

The Trust team at Headway is focused on security and privacy for all of Headways customers - therapists patients and payers (ex: insurance companies and health systems). As an early member on the team youll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated in-house product and application security engineering 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.

What youll do at 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

Youll be great for this role if you have:

• 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 Headways business.
• Mission driven: You are motivated by Headways mission increasing access to high quality mental health care.

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 round: Youll meet with a member of our Security Engineering team for introductions and an architecture interview. Conducted similarly to a System Design interview well learn more about your knowledge of the role of security in engineering systems and web architecture.
• Final rounds: Youll 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 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 & Benefits:

The expected base pay range for this position is $227758 - $267950 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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