Cedar · 2 days ago
Sr Software Engineer (Data Platforms)
Cedar Inc is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare system. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Integration and Platforms team, responsible for building systems and technologies for data integration and analysis to enhance patient experiences.
BillingFinTechHealth CareMedicalPayments
Responsibilities
Evolve our integration data pipelines from homegrown ETL scripts to a modern, scalable data stack (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake)
Engineer for scale, improve the performance of our data pipelines to handle the daily processing of tens of millions of records while ensuring high quality and robust observability
Develop our data platform to serve our most popular products while laying the foundation to enable ease of data onboarding and use for new experiments and use cases
Balance delivery on the needs of today while keeping an eye toward our future North Star Architecture, grounding deliverables in business critical outcomes with strong engineering fundamentals
Collaborate closely with delivery engineering teams on mechanisms to improve the quality, speed and scalability of data integration with healthcare providers
Continuously drive scalability into data tools, processes and engineering practices in order to reduce implementation and analytic timelines, customer friction points and maintenance costs
Act as a technical mentor for the team, establishing coding standards and best practices for our evolving data platform
Apply rigorous software engineering practices to the data domain, including version control, automated testing (unit/integration), CI/CD, and structured logging/observability
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in software design and systems engineering, with some time in teams integrating or using large and complex datasets
Fluency reading and writing Python code, with particular familiarity in common data processing libraries
Technical expertise across the data ecosystem: storage, query and ETL orchestration technology; governance and quality; analytics, visualization, and AI/ML pipelines
You are familiar with data engineering paradigms like ETL, ELT, Medallion Architecture, and Data Mesh and can reason between them
Proven track record of bringing clarity to ambiguity and successfully delivering complex data-oriented projects with cross-functional stakeholders
Strong self starter initiative, Cedar is a mature startup but successful candidates will still need a strong drive to understand the systems and navigate them to deliver successfully
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
Familiarity with data engineering tools like dbt, Snowflake, Apache Airflow, Dagster, SQL Alchemy, Fivetran, Kafka
Preferred
Familiarity with Kotlin and Go
Benefits
This role is equity eligible
This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days
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.
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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
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2026-01-20
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