Our healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Every year, over 50 million Americans suffer adverse financial consequences as a result of seeking care, from lower credit scores to garnished wages. The challenge is only getting worse, as high deductible health plans are the fastest growing plan design in the U.S.

Cedar’s mission is to leverage data science, smart product design and personalization to make healthcare more affordable and accessible. Today, healthcare providers still engage with its consumers in a “one-size-fits-all” approach; and Cedar is excited to leverage consumer best practices to deliver a superior experience.

The Role:

Cedar is making major improvements to the patient financial experience. We hope to eliminate the burden of billing for patients and providers by delivering a comprehensive, personalized, and connected financial experience.

As part of our vision to make healthcare more affordable for all U.S. patients, we’re seeking a Software Engineer II to join our Coverage Assistance Programs squad as part of our mission to make healthcare more affordable for all U.S. patients. In this role, you’ll help build and support products that provide patients with access to vital coverage and aid programs such as Medicaid, pharmaceutical copay assistance, charity care, and more. You’ll integrate these programs into Cedar’s suite of tools, create seamless user experiences for patient enrollment, and optimize systems to ensure maximum impact across our patient population. Our goal is to make enrolling in these programs simple and empowering, ensuring that patients can easily access the support they need with dignity.

In this position you will:

Develop, test, and maintain high-impact product features touching both frontend and backend systems
Collaborate with your product, design, and data partners to deliver new features and enhancements
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Grow your technical expertise through code pairing, writing technical documentation, and contributing code

What we look for in a candidate:

Experience working on technical projects across the stack (we don’t have a hard requirement, but generally this comes with 3+ years of professional software development experience)
Experience with at least one major coding language (we mostly use Python and Typescript, but knowing these is not a requirement)
Excitement about our mission and a passion for solving problems that improve the healthcare financial experience

Compensation Range and Benefits

Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $145,000 - $161,625
This role is equity eligible
This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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What do we offer to the ideal candidate?

A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
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)
Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

About us

Cedar was co-founded by Florian Otto and Arel Lidow in 2016 after a negative medical billing experience inspired them to help improve our healthcare system. With a commitment to solving billing and patient experience issues, Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company fueled by remarkable growth. "Over the past several years, we’ve raised more than $350 million in funding & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 30 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar partners with more than 55 leading healthcare providers and payers including Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, Novant Health, Allina Health and Providence.

Software Engineer II

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