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.
Senior Software Engineer – Payment Pillar
At Cedar, we’re transforming the patient billing experience to make healthcare payments affordable, transparent, and stress-free. Our Payment Pillars squad is at the heart of this mission, building a checkout user experience and implementing new payment methods that help patients understand and afford their bills.
We're scaling and investing in new systems, integrations, and product differentiators—making this an exciting time to join.
Cedar supports a flexible work environment, so this role can be remote.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of healthcare payments by leading with deep hands-on technical expertise, driving solutions independently from concept to deployment, and:
- Leading the design and implementation of new full-stack features from end to end, driving significant, measurable impact on key business metrics and patient experience.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and data teams to enhance our platform, clearly articulating technical designs, trade-offs, and the 'why' behind solutions.
- Building and improving our core checkout experience, payment integrations (Stripe), and differentiated payment experiences like HBA/HSA support, and third-party financing.
- Enhancing the user experience, making it easier for patients to save cards, set up autopay, and manage payment plans—core functionalities that set Cedar apart.
- Championing engineering excellence and team growth by actively mentoring peer engineers to do their best work, fostering high standards for code quality, thorough testing, effective technical debt management, performance optimizations, and reliability improvements.
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of driving measurable, senior-level impact across the stack, influencing product direction, system architecture, and team outcomes. (8+ years of experience preferred, but not required).
- Demonstrated proficiency in independent, hands-on coding and problem-solving, including handling complex edge cases, optimizing for efficiency, and delivering robust solutions within time constraints.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly, concisely, and with compelling examples, as well as asking insightful clarifying questions.
- A strong commitment to engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and a proactive approach to managing technical debt.
- Entrepreneurial mindset – You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love solving complex problems.
- Experience with modern languages and frameworks – React, Typescript, Python/Django or similar
- Passion for our mission – You care about making healthcare simpler, fairer, and more transparent for patients.
- Massive Growth & Impact – Cedar is expanding rapidly, and our team is working on a huge roadmap with both core features and greenfield development.
- Leadership & Growth Opportunities – With a brand-new engineering manager (hiring soon) and a growing team, this is a great time to step up, own major projects, and grow as a leader.
- Cutting-Edge Payments Work – We’re differentiating Cedar’s payment experience through seamless checkout, financing innovations, and benefit coordination solutions that are helping us close major deals.
- Collaboration with Product – You’ll work closely with our new PM (currently hiring) to shape the future of patient payments.
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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