Cedar is seeking a staff engineer to embed in the Payments Platform team and lead technical strategy across multiple related squads. The Payments Platform squad is responsible for building and maintaining the core payment processing infrastructure that powers all Cedar applications and ensures seamless transactions for our patients. This role will own the systems that power money movement from authentication through settlement, shaping how millions of patients experience paying for care.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience.
- Proven track record as a backend architect—designing APIs, services, and event-driven systems that scale reliably.
- A demonstrated track record of leading large technical projects that span multiple engineering teams and require multi-functional teamwork.
- Experience leading vendor integrations, especially building a platform with various vendor integrations with consolidation.
- Experience raising standards across teams—mentoring not just juniors but also senior engineers through code/design review, setting patterns, and influencing architecture forums.
- Ability to scale solutions and build for long-term supportability
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive projects from ideation through to completion
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of high-impact projects in the Payment product space.
- Bring clarity to highly ambiguous projects and ensure we are building for long-term scalability and robustness.
- Develop a deep understanding of payment lifecycles and vendors' functionalities, identify improvement opportunities to streamline the payment experience and reduce cost.
- Drive key technical initiatives such as invoice payment decoupling.
- Evaluate build vs buy tradeoffs, influence vendor strategy, and advocate for what’s best for patients and the business.
- Drive org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, team well-being, and development satisfaction, etc.
Other
- Collaborate with your counterparts on the product, design, and commercial teams to understand patient challenges and formulate technical strategies to address them.
- Mentor engineers at all levels and uplevel them through training and sharing best practices.
- Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical cross-functional teams
- A natural inclination for ownership with a bias-for-action mindset
- Excitement about our mission and a passion for solving problems to improve the healthcare financial experience
