Staff Software Engineer, Cedar
Patient Pillar
$216.8-255k
+ Equity, Salary subject to location
Financial engagement & billing for healthcare providers
Open for applications
Financial engagement & billing for healthcare providers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$216.8-255k
+ Equity, Salary subject to location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make healthcare more affordable and accessible through its consumer-friendly platform.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience leading large technical projects that span multiple engineering teams and require multi-functional teamwork
- Experience mentoring engineers across all levels
- Experience owning a business-critical application, standing up complex new systems, and building for supportability and long-term maintenance
- Ability to debug complex issues involving subtle interactions between multiple systems and libraries
- Experience influencing cross-functional decision making, including the ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts simply
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, and find comfort in ambiguity
- Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
- We're looking for someone who has a strong interest in both the product development process and hands-on coding
- To be successful, our Staff Engineers bring a "do what it takes" ownership mindset to this innovative and impactful work for patients
What the job involves
- As part of our vision to fulfill the diverse needs of patients across the US, we are seeking a Staff Engineer to embed on various squads in the Patient pillar and lead technical strategy across the pillar
- The Patient pillar is responsible for empathetically engaging with patients across various channels to communicate with patients, gather information from them and offer options tailored to their needs, such as financial assistance
- Lead the development of high-impact client projects in the Cedar Pay product
- Mentor engineers at a variety of levels (junior through senior). Be a role model and trusted advisor for passionate and driven team members
- Own key services that are relied upon by multiple engineering teams
- Collaborate with your counterparts on the product, design, and commercial teams to understand patient challenges and formulate technical strategies to address them
- Work autonomously and creatively to find solutions and overcome challenges
- Drive org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, team well-being and development satisfaction, etc. Think broadly about opportunities to level-up the engineering org
- Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote friendly
Our take
Over $1 billion is said to be lost annually by physicians as a result of inefficient and disjointed healthcare billing practices. The subsequently low patient satisfaction rates lead to poorer care, and real losses for providers who see patients switching away from their plans.
Cedar looks to remedy these issues with a selection of consumer-facing services which streamline billing, insurance and healthcare processes. Healthcare billing concerns a huge percentage of US adults, so optimizing patient satisfaction is of increasing concern - a great opportunity for the company.
After acquiring competing patient finance streamlining service OODA Health in 2021, Cedar netted substantial funds and launched its Payer Intelligence Layer. This allows it to integrate data from insurers and providers to create a single source of information. The company was also endorsed by the Montana Hospital Association's shared services division, to be listed as its only preferred patient financial engagement technology.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2022
$68.4m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Health insurance
- Offices in Manhattan, San Francisco and Salt Lake City
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- Guided-meditation and game nights (Weekly!)
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year
- 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)
- Equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
- 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
Company values
- Focus on the vision: We enable an exceptional healthcare consumer financial experience through relentless focus, only prioritizing actions that advance us towards this goal
- Reject mediocrity: We solicit diverse perspectives, set high standards and constantly challenge ourselves to raise the bar on our thinking, people and performance
- Apply a growth mindset: We maintain an optimistic, constructive and resilient attitude, passionately pursuing our mission, embracing difficult problems and learning from setbacks
- Use good judgment: We require accountability, bold thinking and a reliance on common sense to prioritize and make informed decisions that reflect our convictions, integrity and core values
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Arel Lidow
(Co-Founder)Previously VP of product at AppNexus where they supervised the development and launch of the company’s flagship products. Began their career as a technology associate at Bridgewater Associates, working on trading systems for the world’s largest hedge fund.
Dr. Florian Otto
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an executive at Zocdoc where they drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. Began their business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company.
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