Cedar · 4 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Payment Platform
USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$217K/yr - $280K/yr
8+ years expCedar Inc is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare financial experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy within the Payments Platform team, responsible for building and maintaining the core payment processing infrastructure that ensures seamless transactions for patients.
BillingFinTechHealth CareMedicalPayments
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
Collaborate with your counterparts on the product, design, and commercial teams to understand patient challenges and formulate technical strategies to address them
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
Mentor engineers at all levels and uplevel them through training and sharing best practices
Drive org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, team well-being, and development satisfaction, etc
Qualification
Required
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
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
Preferred
Payments experience sets ahead, but is not required
Benefits
This role is equity eligible
This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
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
Company
Cedar
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups that elevates the patient experience.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$419.36MKey Investors
Memorial Hermann FoundationTiger Global ManagementAndreessen Horowitz
2022-12-19Series D· $68.36M
2021-03-09Series D· $200M
2020-06-22Series C· $77M
Leadership Team
Florian Otto
CEO and Co-Founder
Scott Stockberger
Chief Financial Officer
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