Senior Data Engineer

Join Headway, a mission-driven company focused on making mental healthcare accessible and affordable. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our data architecture, designing and implementing robust data pipelines, and ensuring data governance standards are upheld. You will work cross-functionally with various teams and own technical decisions across the data platform. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience as a data engineer, proficiency in Python and SQL, and a passion for Headway's mission.

- 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. - Partner with Product and Engineering to advocate for best practices in data engineering and ensure data needs are addressed early in the product lifecycle.

- Proficiency in Python and SQL - Empathy for your teammates and stakeholders, and a collaborative mindset that values working across disciplines - Experience with tools and services that encompass a modern data platform stack, such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Fivetran, and Terraform - A strong sense of ownership and a bias toward action, especially in the face of ambiguity - A pragmatic approach to building for both today’s needs and tomorrow’s scale - Passion for Headway’s mission to make mental healthcare more accessible and affordable - 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 - Familiarity with visualization tools like Metabase or Jupyter Notebooks is a plus!