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
As a member of the Payment Differentiation Squad, your day might look like:
- Driving Innovation: Experimenting with and launching ML-powered payment features in collaboration with our AI team and data scientists.
- Advancing Patient Affordability: Partnering with leading organizations like Plaid to improve patient access to affordable healthcare.
- Engineering for Scale: Enhancing our checkout flow, which handles tens of millions of patients annually and processes billions of dollars in payments.
- Inspiring and Leading Others: Actively contributing to team chartering, managing technical projects, and mentoring peer engineers to take ownership of their own projects.
- Raising the Technical Bar: Taking creative initiative, such as by expanding our Cursor Rules collection or developing new interview questions (examples from current Payment Differentiation engineers).
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of driving measurable impact across the stack. (4-6 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.
- 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 new engineering manager and 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*: $185,000 - $215,000
- 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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