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.
The Role:
Cedar is making major improvements to the patient financial experience. Within the Patient Engineering Pillar, we focus on empathetically engaging with patients across various channels to communicate with and gather information from them. We build products and features for patients trying to understand and improve their healthcare finances and the healthcare operators who are trying to engage with those patients.
As part of our vision to create a smoother patient billing experience, we are in need of a Software Engineer II to join our Patient Information Collection squad focused on optimizing patients’ health and financial outcomes with accurate, timely, and relevant patient information capture across the lifecycle of their care. Our team aims to balance the success of our individual clients with the ability to scale our platform and improve the happiness of patients.
In this position you will:
- Lead the development of high-impact product features within your squad and facilitate projects across squads
- Bring technical leadership and clarity to ambiguous projects and ensure we are building for long term maintainability
- Mentor junior team members and uplevel them through pairings and sharing best practices
- Support your counterparts on the product, design and commercial teams on understanding and solving patient problems, playing a key role in the product development process.
- Develop, review, and maintain efficient and reliable code.
- Work autonomously and creatively in navigating and overcoming obstacles that you encounter.
- Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote friendly.
What we look for in a candidate:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Full stack expertise with data integrations experience.
- Strong computer science fundamentals - a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or similar experience.
- Experience working directly with product and design.
- Ability to debug complex issues involving subtle interactions between multiple systems and libraries.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, comfort with ambiguity.
- Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- Healthcare data integrations experience.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and prior experience using BI tools such as Snowflake and Looker to build a deeper understanding of data syncs.
- Deep knowledge of Python and Django internals.
- Strong client facing interpersonal skills.
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $145,000 - $161,625
- 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 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 30 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.
