Senior Software Engineer, Cedar

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in a full-stack role
• Strong communicator who collaborates well with cross-functional teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled in mentoring peers and helping others grow through pairing, feedback, and guidance
• Experienced in designing systems with real-world scale, complexity, and ambiguity
• Comfortable with tradeoffs and pragmatic about architecture decisions
• Passionate about improving the healthcare experience through thoughtful, human-centered software

Desirable

• Cedar is on a mission to fix the broken patient financial experience in healthcare
• As a Senior Software Engineer on our Communications & Login squad, you’ll help solve one of our most foundational challenges: how we engage patients meaningfully, personally, and at scale
• This team owns the first impression patients have with Cedar—everything from login flows to the email and text messages that guide them through their healthcare bills
• It’s a deceptively complex problem
• What we send, when we send it, how it's personalized, and how patients log in to act on it can be the difference between confusion and clarity
• Done well, great communication doesn’t just improve payment outcomes—it helps patients feel informed, in control, and supported during a stressful part of the healthcare journey
• This is a role for someone who wants to ship meaningful product, build robust systems, and help level-up a growing team
• You’ll work across the stack, bring clarity to ambiguous problems, and scale personalized patient communication across millions of users
• This team sits at the top of the funnel for Cedar's entire product experience
• Your work directly influences patient engagement, financial outcomes, and ultimately the success of our provider clients
• Revamping our comms content system to be understandable and scalable across teams
• Building personalization infrastructure to tailor messages to patient behavior and context
• Improving login flows and reducing friction at the most critical moment of patient interaction
• Enabling product teams to own and experiment with their own communication touchpoints
• Laying the groundwork for AI-powered messaging and intelligent patient outreach
• Own and deliver major features and platform improvements from concept to production
• Partner with product, design, and data to build scalable, patient-first communication systems
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction for a growing squad
• Help revamp and scale our communications infrastructure for clarity, performance, and ownership
• Collaborate on personalization efforts—building data-driven, scalable systems that go beyond "tokenized" emails
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to engineers across experience levels
• Bring clarity to ambiguous problems and translate them into actionable technical plans
• Champion best practices around system design, testing, code review, and team collaboration
• Bring a strong sense of ownership to team deliverables and outcomes