About the Data Engineering Team

Headway is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help us get closer to executing our mission: to create access to affordable, quality mental healthcare across the United States. Data plays a critical role in Headway’s mission by empowering business decisions and operations at scale. The Data Engineering team builds the platform on which we process financial data and make business decisions. The data engineering team is partnered with most of the teams across Headway including the finance team, insurance systems team, data analytics, product and data science teams. 

As a member of the Data Engineering team, you will be collaborating with others in designing, building and implementing data pipelines that serve the core product and various stakeholders. You will be partnering with the Data Science, Data Analytics and Core Infrastructure functions closely, and together help shape the data landscape for Headway.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate on the design and improvements of the data infrastructure
• Partner with product and engineering to advocate best practices and build supporting systems and infrastructure for the various data needs
• Create data pipelines that stitch together various data sources in order to produce valuable business insights
• Create real-time data pipelines in collaboration with the Data Science team

You will love this role if you have:

• 3+ years of experience in a data engineering role building products, ideally in a fast-paced environment
• Good foundations in Python, Java or Scala (Python being the one we use most)
• Experience with Spark, PySpark, DBT, SQL
• Knowledge of visualization tools, such as Metabase, Jupyter Notebooks (Python)
• A knack for simplifying data, expressing information in charts and tables
• Empathy: you are eager to see the world from your users’ perspectives
• Energy: you're attracted to ambiguity & are a self-starter. You love to drive the direction of ambiguous projects
• Motivation: our mission excites you. We are working to solve the biggest problems in mental health care today (access and affordability) 

Our Interview Process

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

• Initial screen: You’ll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway’s mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background. 
• First round: You'll meet with a member of our data engineering team for a data systems interview.
• Final rounds: You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews and leave with a fuller picture of what it’s like to work at Headway.
• References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!

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