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
Our Platform Testing team builds the tooling, frameworks, and standards that help every Cedar engineering team test more effectively. We’re hiring an engineer with deep testing expertise to make our large test suite faster and more reliable, shape how we test services as our architecture evolves, and identify where our biggest risks are. You’ll write production-quality code, own well-defined problems independently, and partner with senior engineers in a broader direction. Because Cedar builds healthcare technology, better testing directly improves the experience for patients, providers, and customers. This role is remote across the United States.
What you will do:
- Build tooling and metrics that make test quality visible, including reliability, flakiness, and coupling
- Establish code-coverage measurement and help teams close gaps in the highest-risk areas
- Improve service-to-service testing as our architecture becomes more distributed
- Integrate testing capabilities into CI/CD and developer workflows with Platform engineers
- Make great testing easier through better frameworks, documentation, and standards
- Help connect tests to product behavior and feature specifications
- Own projects end to end, from investigation to adoption, and measure their impact on quality
What We Look For
- 4–7 years in software engineering, or as an SDET with substantial software development responsibilities
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Deep knowledge of testing strategies from unit through end-to-end, and hands-on use of frameworks such as pytest, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, or Playwright
- You’ve implemented CI/CD pipelines, including collecting and reporting on test results
- You’ve measured test suites through metrics such as coverage, reliability, execution time, or flakiness
- Ability to work cross-functionally to improve processes, and to bring in the right people when a problem needs broader input
- Strong written and verbal communication, including turning testing strategy into clear standards and documentation
- Comfort working independently once a problem is defined, and genuine curiosity about how software fails
Nice to Have
- Service-to-service or contract testing (e.g., Pact, Testcontainers), especially during an architecture migration
- You’ve built a test framework from scratch
- Time on a platform, developer productivity, or internal tooling team, ideally within a product engineering organization
- You’ve built AI-assisted testing tools or tested LLM-powered applications
- Familiarity with Go or Kotlin, or eagerness to pick up new languages
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary Range*: $170,000-$215,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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, 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
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 26 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.
Skills Required
- 4–7 years of experience in software engineering or as an SDET with substantial software development responsibilities
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Deep knowledge of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
- Hands-on experience with testing frameworks such as pytest, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, or Playwright
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, including test-result collection and reporting
- Experience measuring test suites using coverage, reliability, execution time, or flakiness metrics
- Ability to work cross-functionally to improve processes
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including creating testing standards and documentation
- Ability to work independently after problem definition
- Service-to-service or contract testing experience, such as Pact or Testcontainers
- Experience building a test framework from scratch
- Experience on a platform, developer productivity, or internal tooling team
- Experience building AI-assisted testing tools or testing LLM-powered applications
- Familiarity with Go or Kotlin, or willingness to learn new languages
What the Team is Saying
Cedar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Cedar provides 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for new parents and offers fertility and family-forming support. Feedback suggests the leave is generous and flexible, aligning with current policy details.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Cedar advertises an unlimited PTO policy that covers vacation, sickness, and mental-health days, with company-wide holiday shutdowns. Feedback suggests the policy supports good work-life balance and is genuinely flexible on some teams.
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Healthcare Strength — Cedar lists multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options alongside mental-health resources, telehealth, and life/disability coverage. Feedback suggests coverage breadth and network access are solid.
Cedar Insights
What We Do
Cedar is the AI-powered healthcare financial experience platform, built for the rising cost and complexity of healthcare payments. We help millions of people every year understand and resolve their medical bills with clarity and compassion, while helping healthcare organizations operate more efficiently. We’re combining AI, smart design, and empathy to fix one of healthcare’s most urgent crises.
Why Work With Us
Built on over a billion patient interactions, our platform unifies billing, payments, coverage, and support into one intelligent solution that learns and adapts, delivering stronger results for providers and more empathetic, affordable experiences for patients. We co-innovate with healthcare leaders to make care more accessible and affordable.
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Employees work remotely.
Cedar has adopted a hybrid work model that enables all Cedarians to work in a way that best serves them. For some, that means working from our NYC HQ. Most, (two-thirds) of our employees work remotely and only come to our office for team on-sites
