Headway Inc is a global tech company, revolutionizing lifelong learning by creating digital products for over 150 million users worldwide. Our mission is to help people grow. We’re proud to be ranked 4th among the World’s Top EdTech Сompanies by TIME magazine. We believe lifelong learning should be accessible, personalized, and impactful to each individual. That’s how we change the world and why we bring together exceptional minds.
The core of our achievements is our team. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Vladyslav Kiriushkin — Engineering Manager at Platform tribe, we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our new team transforming the EdTech industry. What will you do: * Build and evolve backend services for a new mission-critical product, from MVP to broader adoption. * Implement reliable transactional workflows: clear state handling, safe retries, and consistent data persistence. * Integrate with external partners/systems and make integrations production-grade (edge cases, timeouts, partial failures). * Ensure operational readiness: monitoring/alerting, debugging, incident participation, and performance improvements. * Contribute to engineering standards: code quality, tests, documentation, and continuous delivery practices.
What do you need to join us: * 5+ years of backend engineering experience; * Strong backend fundamentals: API design, concurrency, databases, distributed systems basics * Solid experience shipping and maintaining production services; * Experience of integrating external systems/APIs, building robust adapters, and handling edge cases at scale * Reliability mindset: observability, failure-mode thinking, and pragmatic testing.
Challenges you will face: * Ambiguity of a new product: requirements will evolve as we validate the MVP, so you’ll need to iterate quickly and make pragmatic trade-offs; * High correctness expectations: you’ll work on mission-critical flows where edge cases matter (retries, duplicates, partial failures, inconsistent partner responses); * Operational ownership: you’ll help run what you build — monitoring, debugging, incident participation, and improving reliability over time; * Balancing delivery and engineering quality: shipping fast while still keeping the codebase maintainable (tests, clear interfaces, documentation); * Cross-team dependencies: progress may depend on aligning with other teams’ timelines and changes in existing systems, so communication and coordination are part of the job.
What do we offer: * Work within an ambitious team on a socially impactful education product. * An office with a reliable shelter, generators, satellite internet, and other amenities. * Access to our corporate knowledge base and professional communities. * Personal development plan. * Compensation for English language learning, external training, and courses. * Medical insurance and full sick leave compensation. * Corporate holidays: we take a week-long paid holiday to rest and recharge twice a year. * Supporting initiatives that help Ukraine. Find out more about our projects here.
