Staff Software Engineer, Cedar
Payment Platform
$216.8-280k
+ Equity
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
Be an early applicant
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$216.8-280k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower us all to easily and affordably pursue the care we need.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- Proven track record as a backend architect—designing APIs, services, and event-driven systems that scale reliably
- A demonstrated track record of leading large technical projects that span multiple engineering teams and require multi-functional teamwork
- Experience leading vendor integrations, especially building a platform with various vendor integrations with consolidation
- Experience raising standards across teams—mentoring not just juniors but also senior engineers through code/design review, setting patterns, and influencing architecture forums
- Ability to scale solutions and build for long-term supportability
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive projects from ideation through to completion
- Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
- A natural inclination for ownership with a bias-for-action mindset
- Excitement about our mission and a passion for solving problems to improve the healthcare financial experience
- Payments experience sets ahead, but is not required
What the job involves
- Cedar is seeking a staff engineer to embed in the Payments Platform team and lead technical strategy across multiple related squads
- The Payments Platform squad is responsible for building and maintaining the core payment processing infrastructure that powers all Cedar applications and ensures seamless transactions for our patients
- This isn’t a typical Staff role—you’ll own the systems that power money movement from authentication through settlement, shaping how millions of patients experience paying for care
- Lead the development of high-impact projects in the Payment product space
- Bring clarity to highly ambiguous projects and ensure we are building for long-term scalability and robustness
- Develop a deep understanding of payment lifecycles and vendors' functionalities, identify improvement opportunities to streamline the payment experience and reduce cost
- Collaborate with your counterparts on the product, design, and commercial teams to understand patient challenges and formulate technical strategies to address them
- Drive key technical initiatives such as invoice payment decoupling
- Evaluate build vs buy tradeoffs, influence vendor strategy, and advocate for what’s best for patients and the business
- Mentor engineers at all levels and uplevel them through training and sharing best practices
- Drive org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, team well-being, and development satisfaction, etc
- Payments are the backbone of Cedar’s platform. Every failed authorization or brittle integration translates into real cost for patients and providers
- By modernizing Cedar’s payments platform, you’ll reduce friction for patients, save providers money, and establish durable payment integration patterns that scale across the company
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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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
- Multiple health / dental / vision insurance options
- Office in Manhattan
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- 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
- Up to $10,000 in reimbursement through Carrot Fertility to support comprehensive, inclusive care for family-forming and reproductive health journeys
- Constant learning and development opportunities
- Resources for mental and physical wellbeing
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
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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