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 tackle 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 driving force of Cedar. We need robust and scalable data integrations to work with healthcare providers and provide the best experience for patients. Data integrations are very complicated 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 a 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!

*This is a long term remote optional opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously and creatively in navigating and overcoming obstacles that you encounter
• Develop our custom in-house ETL framework, which efficiently and accurately processes millions of EHR records per day
• Tackle complex scalability challenges including optimizing database queries, writing ultra-efficient Python code, and working with distributed, asynchronous tasks
• Contribute to team efforts across Cedar and our clients to deploy the Cedar platform reliably
• Work closely with our integration team members to optimize future client integrations

Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of professional backend coding experience
• Familiarity with data structures, relational databases (especially Postgres), cloud infrastructure
• Experience building data pipelines and working with workflow tooling
• 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
• Familiarity with Python internals a plus
• Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
• Eligible to work in the United States