The Role 

Cedar has built a platform that combines data science and machine learning to connect patients with healthcare providers in a way that helps solve the critical challenges of patient billing and payment. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling providers to thrive in a rapidly changing environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care.

Data integrations are the lifeblood of Cedar. We need robust and scalable data integrations to work with healthcare providers and provide the optimal experience for patients. Data integrations are very challenging in healthcare today due to lack of interoperability and standardization across medical billing systems. This challenge holds back many health tech companies from making progress. At Cedar, we have invested deeply in our integration engine, as we believe it is an essential ingredient to achieving our mission of helping patients.

We are seeking an Senior Backend Engineer to join the team and contribute to the backend of the Cedar platform. This team member would be responsible for developing the integration engine required for a smooth integration with our providers’ electronic health record data. This role is perfect for the engineer who has a passion for system and application design.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously and creatively in navigating and overcoming obstacles that you encounter
• Develop integration engine for smooth integration with client's electronic health record (EHR) data
• Contribute to cross-functional team efforts across Cedar and our clients to deploy the Cedar platform - reliably
• Work closely with our integration team members to optimize future implementations
• Role located in New York City

Skills & Experience

• 4+ yrs of professional backend coding experience
• Familiarity with data structures, relational databases, cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity or experience with data pipelines 
• Interested in system and application design
• Strong coding and technical architecture skills, with experience shipping production-critical software
  
• Experience developing applications with Python & Django preferred
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, comfort with ambiguity
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Excited about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
• Eligible to work in the United States, and located in (or willing to relocate to) New York City

What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

• An opportunity to solve a problem that affects millions of patients annually
• A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage
• The ability to impact the growth of our company, we value all comments and suggestions
• Transparency across teams and interaction with multiple departments
• Competitive pay, employer-paid healthcare, stock options
• Daily team lunch and unlimited healthy snacks
• Exposure to top venture capitalists including Thrive Capital and Founders Fund

About Cedar

Cedar is improving the healthcare financial experience. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling providers to thrive in a rapidly changing environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care.

If creating a better healthcare financial experience excites you, we encourage you to apply.