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.
Cedar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Communications Platform squad in the Patient pillar. The Patient pillar is responsible for empathetically engaging with patients across various channels to communicate with patients and gather information from them. The Communications Platform squad works in a cross-functional team (engineering, product, design) to optimize patient engagement by enabling flexible, efficient, and reliable communications.
In this role you will:
- Collaborate with design, product, and integrations partners to deliver enhancements and new features
- Design scalable solutions for custom feature sets with future reusability in mind
- Clearly document design decisions and feature functionality for future developers and product operations
- Uphold code quality standards through providing thoughtful PR reviews
- Mentor and up-level junior engineers
- Work across the stack to implement new features and debug existing code
- Ideate and identify areas for improvement in our technical space
- 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 an ideal candidate:
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Strong computer science fundamentals - a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or similar experience
- Expertise in at least one major coding language
- Experience leading technical projects across the stack and building for supportability and long-term maintenance
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, and find comfort in ambiguity
- Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
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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