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:
Cedar is making major improvements to the patient financial experience. We hope to eliminate the burden of billing for patients and providers by delivering a comprehensive, personalized, and connected financial experience.
As part of our vision to create a smoother patient billing experience, we are in need of a Software Engineer III to join our Payment Workflows squad. Our team focuses on helping patients feel supported in their healthcare payment journey by offering affordable, flexible, and transparent payment experiences that consolidate and demystify financial information across insurance entities and healthcare providers.
Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote friendly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Feature Development: Design and implement new end-to-end, full-stack features that enhance patient payment experiences.
- Collaborative Innovation: Work closely with product, design, and data teams to deliver new features and improvements.
- Code Quality: Uphold high code quality standards through thoughtful peer reviews.
- Performance Optimization: Improve the speed and reliability of our existing applications.
- Friction Reduction: Identify and eliminate pain points in the payment flow to increase payment success rates.
- Infrastructure Improvement: Develop infrastructure to better manage and enhance payment success rates.
What You'll Gain:
- Technical Growth: Enhance your skills by working on complex, full-stack problems.
- Impact: Make a real difference in the lives of patients by alleviating the stress of healthcare payments.
- Innovation: Thrive in an entrepreneurial environment where your ideas and solutions are valued.
- Collaboration: Work with a diverse team of talented professionals across various disciplines.
What We Look For:
- Experience: Strong ownership mentality and experience leading technical problems across the stack, typically with 4-6 years of professional software development experience.
- Adaptability: Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and find comfort in ambiguity.
- Mission-Driven: Excitement about our mission and a desire to solve problems for patients.
- Team Collaboration: Experience working collaboratively with product and design teams.
Compensation Range and Benefits:
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $170,000 - $200,000
- 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 PTO 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 the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and 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 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 from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.
As of December 2023, Cedar is engaging with 25 million patients on an annualized basis, and is on target to process $2.6 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar’s ambition is to serve 50-60 million Americans by 2025, about half of the U.S. population that makes medical 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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Our New York City headquarters are in the trendy TriBeca neighborhood, with easy access to great local restaurants and shops, as well as public transportation.
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