Job description
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.
Software Engineer II (Fullstack)
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. At Cedar, our mission is to leverage data science, smart product design, and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. We are building a platform that transforms the financial experience for millions of patients.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to join one of our core product teams. In this role, you’ll work on a cross-functional squad (engineering, product, design, data science) to build full stack features that enhance the patient experience of managing healthcare finances.
The Kinds of Problems You’ll Solve
This isn’t just about writing code; it’s about solving real-world challenges that have a direct impact on our users. You’ll:
- Build and enhance features: Design, develop, and deploy new full-stack features that improve patient affordability, transparency, and the overall payment journey.
- Enhance core systems: Build, test, and maintain high-quality code, with an emphasis on readability, flexibility, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Partner with product managers, designers, and other engineers to translate requirements into technical specifications.
Our Teams
We have opportunities on the following teams. The specific problems you’ll work on will be tailored to the team you join:
- Communications & Login Squad: This squad focuses on top of funnel engagement from initial communications through the login experience. Our goal is to create a personalized experience that minimizes friction for patients to engage with their healthcare bills.
- Clarity Squad: This squad is responsible for the patient app experience after communication and before payment. We list their bills, information about line items and status, information about insurance, and offer options to get help. Our goal is to ensure that patients feel clear and confident on what bills they are paying for and what options they have.
- Payment Workflows Squad: The squad builds and maintains the systems that power how patients pay for care. The team works on payment plans, discounts, autopay, multiple payment methods, scheduling, and checkout flows; core capabilities that make healthcare payments more flexible and reliable at scale.
What We Look For
- Experience: You have 2+ years of professional experience building and deploying full-stack production software.
- Technical Skills: You’re proficient in modern languages and frameworks such as React, Typescript, Python/Django or similar.
- Problem-Solving: You are a proactive problem-solver with a demonstrated ability to independently tackle coding challenges.
- Communication: You have strong written and verbal communication skills and can clearly articulate technical ideas.
- Passion for our Mission: You are excited about making healthcare simpler, fairer, and more transparent for patients.
- Growth Mindset: You are eager to learn across an array of topics and tools and want to grow into leading larger projects.
Why Join Us?
- Massive Impact: Your work will directly help millions of patients navigate their healthcare bills, making a tangible difference in their financial well-being.
- Meaningful Work: We are solving a real and urgent problem in the U.S. healthcare system. Every line of code you write contributes to our mission.
- Growth Opportunities: As a key contributor to our growing team, you will have the opportunity to take on more responsibility, own projects, and grow your skills as a full-stack engineer.
- Great Collaboration: You’ll work closely with product and design to shape the future of patient payments and see your work come to life.
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, 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.
