Senior Data Engineer

Headway is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help bring us closer to our mission: creating access to affordable, quality mental healthcare across the United States. The Data Engineering team builds and maintains the infrastructure that makes this possible. We partner closely with stakeholders across the company, including Finance, Insurance Systems, Analytics, Product, and Data Science, to ensure that Headway's data platform is scalable, reliable, and secure. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll help shape the future of our data architecture. You'll work cross-functionally to design and implement robust data pipelines, define and uphold data governance standards, and ensure our platform is built to meet the growing needs of the business.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support internal stakeholders and core business functions; Define, develop, and refine data governance, monitoring, and quality standards across the company, including ensuring that data generated or surfaced by AI tools is complete, correct, and traceable; Identify and lead platform projects that enable better self-service and standardization across teams and pods, reducing bottlenecks and empowering stakeholders to get the data they need on their own; Partner with Product and Engineering to advocate for best practices in data engineering and ensure data needs are addressed early in the product lifecycle; Work cross-functionally with Analytics, Data Science, and Infrastructure to continuously evolve Headway's data architecture; Own and drive technical decisions across the data platform, contributing to everything from performance optimization to infrastructure-as-code; Find practical ways to leverage AI in data engineering workflows, and help shape how Headway employees interact with our data through AI-powered tools, ensuring the underlying data layer is reliable enough to power accurate, trustworthy answers

Requirements

6+ years of experience as a data engineer, with a track record of building scalable systems and solving complex data problems in a fast-paced tech environment; Proficiency in Python and SQL; Experience with tools and services that encompass a modern data platform stack, such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, and Terraform; A forward-thinking approach to AI, with hands-on experience using it to improve your own workflows and a clear-eyed sense of what's feasible today versus what isn't yet; A pragmatic approach to building for both today's needs and tomorrow's scale; A strong sense of ownership and a bias toward action, especially in the face of ambiguity; Empathy for your teammates and stakeholders, and a collaborative mindset that values working across disciplines; Passion for Headway's mission to make mental healthcare more accessible and affordable

Nice to have

Familiarity with visualization tools like Metabase or Jupyter Notebooks

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k) including match for 2027; Carrot Fertility reimbursement; Paid parental, medical and caregiver leave