[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform @Headway

Role Description

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Web Platform, you'll lead a small, senior team of five frontend engineers and own the vision for how Headway builds UI. This is the only role of its kind at Headway. You'll set the strategy for our design system and our web architecture, and you'll be the voice of frontend engineering across the company. The team doesn't have a dedicated product manager, so you'll set the roadmap with Design leadership and Engineering Foundations leadership, and you'll show the value of the work with clear metrics.

You'll stay close to the code. We expect you to be comfortable opening PRs, reading and changing code with AI tools, and taking on small pieces of work yourself, especially in your first few months. Larger projects stay with the team.

Qualifications

• Built your career in frontend.
• Experience as a senior or staff frontend engineer before moving into management.
• Deep experience with React and the modern web.
• Led a frontend platform, design system, or web architecture team, ideally at a fast-growing company.
• Managed engineers for 3+ years.
• Experience hiring, growing senior engineers, and managing performance.
• Daily use of AI tools and shipped code with AI tools in the last six months.
• Clear point of view on great frontend engineering and ability to advocate for it with data.
• Experience working closely with Design and turning design system decisions into engineering plans.
• Ability to build alignment across several product teams with competing priorities.
• Comfortable with a fast pace, with plans measured in weeks or a few months.

Requirements

• Hire to a high bar, grow each person on purpose, and address underperformance directly.
• Give senior engineers ownership of technical direction.
• Hold a clear, opinionated view of where Headway's frontend is going.
• Own the frameworks and tooling that every Headway web app depends on.
• Give agents the skills, docs, and guardrails they need to write good frontend code.
• Grow the frontend guild at Headway and learn from product engineers what's broken.
• Decide among planned work, support requests, and new bets.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a mission-driven company.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.
• Support for professional growth and development.

Company Description

Headway’s mission is to fix the barriers to mental healthcare by building a new system that everyone can access. We automate the administrative work of credentialing, claims, and payment reconciliation, allowing over 85,000 providers to serve over 1 million patients. We are a Series D company with $325M+ in funding, looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission.