Software Engineer, Cedar

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Full stack expertise with data integrations experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals - a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or similar experience
• Experience working directly with product and design
• Ability to debug complex issues involving subtle interactions between multiple systems and libraries
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, comfort with ambiguity
• Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
• Deep knowledge of Python and Django internals

Desirable

• Cedar is making major improvements to the patient financial experience
• Within the Patient Engineering Pillar, we focus on empathetically engaging with patients across various channels to communicate with and gather information from them
• We build products and features for patients trying to understand and improve their healthcare finances and the healthcare operators who are trying to engage with those patients
• As part of our vision to create a smoother patient billing experience, we are in need of a Software Engineer II to join our Patient Information Collection squad focused on optimizing patients’ health and financial outcomes with accurate, timely, and relevant patient information capture across the lifecycle of their care
• Our team aims to balance the success of our individual clients with the ability to scale our platform and improve the happiness of patients
• Lead the development of high-impact product features within your squad and facilitate projects across squads
• Bring technical leadership and clarity to ambiguous projects and ensure we are building for long term maintainability
• Mentor junior team members and uplevel them through pairings and sharing best practices
• Support your counterparts on the product, design and commercial teams on understanding and solving patient problems, playing a key role in the product development process
• Develop, review, and maintain efficient and reliable code
• Work autonomously and creatively in navigating and overcoming obstacles that you encounter
• Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote friendly

• 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

Total funding: $394.4m

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.