About the role

As Headway’s founding Security Engineering hire, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house Security engineering team. This role reports to our Head of Infrastructure and will partner with them to design our next-generation security program, touching all aspects of Headway’s business and systems. You will both technically and organizationally lead security projects ranging from practice changes to technical architecture to security infrastructure development to penetration testing. You will bring clarity to the next two years of security-focused work, and help to further build out the team, including adding needed expertise and bandwidth over the next 12 months. 

Tools we use:

• 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

Who you are:

• You have technical experience with implementing secure platforms and products at a deep level. 
• You want to instill a culture of secure development across engineering and lead the organization to embrace security as a part of normal development. 
• You can understand the business stage as well as the security risk and work with leadership to understand and decide on tradeoffs and priority. 
• You are an avid mentor and seek to teach others how to improve while enabling them to succeed.
• While operating as a leader in some respects, you are still technical and enjoy tackling deep problems and producing technical solutions and automation. 

Experience we’re seeking:

• 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles
• Web/API platform penetration testing experience
• Broad security domain knowledge and common application vulnerabilities
• Experience with cloud hosted environments and patterns for secure architecture in the cloud
• The ability and drive to continuously educate yourself and others

You’ll love this role if you want to:

• Change the trajectory of a startup striving to redefine access to mental health in America
• Work on a highly collaborative, cross-functional engineering team in order to build the best and most secure products for therapists, patients, physician and payer partners, and/or your teammates at Headway
• Help establish and engrain best practices throughout our organization
• Contribute to our engineering culture, processes, and documentation with the same thought and care that we do our software (one of our engineering cultural principles is “Everything is a Product”)

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 our Head of Infrastructure to dig deeper into the role and requirements, and illustrate your technical, operational and leadership experiences. 
• 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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