The healthcare system is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S., with over 50 million Americans suffering adverse financial consequences due to seeking care. High deductible health plans are exacerbating this issue. Cedar aims to make healthcare more affordable and accessible by leveraging data science, smart product design, and personalization to improve the patient financial experience.
Requirements
- Experience with modern languages and frameworks – React, Typescript, Python/Django or similar
Responsibilities
- Experimenting with and launching ML-powered payment features in collaboration with our AI team and data scientists.
- Partnering with leading organizations like Plaid to improve patient access to affordable healthcare.
- Enhancing our checkout flow, which handles tens of millions of patients annually and processes billions of dollars in payments.
- Actively contributing to team chartering, managing technical projects, and mentoring peer engineers to take ownership of their own projects.
- Taking creative initiative, such as by expanding our Cursor Rules collection or developing new interview questions (examples from current Payment Differentiation engineers).
Other
- Strong technical leadership with a track record of driving measurable impact across the stack. (4-6 years of experience preferred, but not required).
- Demonstrated proficiency in independent, hands-on coding and problem-solving, including handling complex edge cases, optimizing for efficiency, and delivering robust solutions within time constraints.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly, concisely, and with compelling examples, as well as asking insightful clarifying questions.
- A strong commitment to engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and a proactive approach to managing technical debt.
- Entrepreneurial mindset – You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love solving complex problems.
- Passion for our mission – You care about making healthcare simpler, fairer, and more transparent for patients.
- 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, including fertility & adoption assistance, 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
