Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.
Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.
At Cedar, we’re on a mission to simplify the patient billing experience and improve the financial journey in healthcare. As part of this vision, we’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Clarity squad. This core product team is focused on improving healthcare bill transparency, helping patients better understand and manage their healthcare finances. We aim to enhance the experience for all patients while reducing operational burdens for providers and scaling our platform.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be pivotal in shaping our technical direction, driving significant architectural improvements, and delivering measurable impact that directly contributes to these ambitious goals. Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote-friendly.
In this position, you will:- Lead impactful projects: Own the end-to-end development of features and technical investments, demonstrating and articulating the broad scope and measurable impact of your contributions on our platform, users, and business objectives.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner closely with product, design, and data science teams to deliver innovative solutions, communicating complex technical concepts clearly, concisely, and with compelling examples.
- Drive technical clarity: Bring clarity to ambiguous projects, ensuring we build scalable systems that stand the test of time.
- Ensure high standards for code quality, test coverage, and documentation, actively identifying and addressing technical debt to maintain a healthy codebase.
- Mentor and inspire: Guide engineers at all levels through technical challenges, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of learning and growth.
- Advocate for improvements: Identify opportunities to enhance our systems and champion changes that benefit both our clients and patients.
- 8+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of leading engineers to solve complex technical problems across the stack.
- A strong ownership mentality focused on delivering senior-level value through measurable impact on critical systems, user experience, or operational efficiency.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly, ask insightful clarifying questions and present your work and its impact concisely using relevant examples.
- A strong commitment to engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and a proactive approach to managing technical debt.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and a passion for solving complex problems in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Proven experience with Python and Django (or similar modern web frameworks/backend technologies) in a production environment is highly preferred.
- Excitement about Cedar’s mission and solving meaningful problems for patients, demonstrated by a proactive, growth-oriented mindset and a track record of driving impactful initiatives.
Compensation Range and Benefits:
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $195,500 - $230,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
- Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
About us
Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we've raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 26 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.
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