Senior Software Engineer, Cedar
Data Acquisition
$195.5-247.3k
+ Equity
AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
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AI-powered platform that helps patients afford and navigate healthcare payments
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$195.5-247.3k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower us all to easily and affordably pursue the care we need.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving for ambiguity, building durable systems in regulated environments, and working at the intersection of product, data, and healthcare infrastructure
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in healthcare or similarly complex and highly regulated data environments
- Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining robust data integrations
- Expertise in at least one major coding language
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, legacy systems, and evolving requirements
- Able to work cross-functionally with product managers, client stakeholders, and commercial partners
- Skilled at breaking down complex technical concepts into clear, actionable communication
- Passionate about improving healthcare through better software
Desirable
- Experience working directly with EMRs, clearinghouses, or healthcare billing systems
- Familiar with HL7, FHIR, 835/837, or similar interoperability standards is bonus
- Familiarity with real-time streaming tools (Kafka, Flink, etc.)
- Prior experience in regulated domains like healthcare, fintech, or insurance
- Exposure to platform-level thinking (e.g. designing shared systems across products)
- Comfortable using BI tools (e.g. Looker, Snowflake) to investigate data-level issues
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our Data Acquisition team, you’ll play a key role in one of the most technically challenging and strategically important areas of our platform: integrating Cedar with the complex and fragmented healthcare data ecosystem
- The Integrations team is building a platform to ingest and normalize healthcare billing data to power multiple Cedar products
- It’s a high-impact, high-complexity space involving real-time data flows, and an ever-changing web of EMRs, hospital workflows, and third-party systems
- The biggest blocker to innovation in healthcare is often access to data
- Every hospital system, EMR, and billing vendor does things slightly differently
- That complexity makes innovation hard to scale
- This role is part of Cedar’s strategic push to fix that
- You’ll help evolve our integration layer into a modern, flexible platform—one that can serve as a foundation for every product Cedar builds going forward
- Design and implement resilient, secure data ingestion systems that integrate with hospital EMRs, billing vendors, and third-party platforms
- Help transition from batch ETL to real-time streaming integrations using standards like HL7, FHIR, and 835s
- Work closely with product, delivery, and commercial teams to understand integration requirements and translate them into durable solutions
- Allow Cedar to grow as a company by building a platform that empowers Product teams to acquire and manage their own data
- Collaborate on evolving the integrations architecture into a shared data platform powering multiple Cedar product lines
- Build tooling to accelerate the pace and reliability of new client integrations
- Lead technical design and execution for critical integration initiatives
- Own systems end-to-end: from client data specs to deployment and monitoring
- Mentor engineers across the team through code review, pairing, and shared design
- Contribute to Cedar’s engineering culture by sharing your experience around interoperability, data pipelines, API design, or testing standards
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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