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.
Our core product team is building the technology that helps patients understand, afford, and manage their healthcare costs.
You'll drive innovation by experimenting with and launching AI and ML powered features; from integrating LLMs into engineering workflows to enhancing an AI chat agent that delivers personalized billing guidance with empathy and compassion.
You'll also lead the design, development, and deployment of full-stack experiences that give patients greater flexibility, confidence, and control over their financial journey, including integrations with leading financial partners to bring new payment solutions to life.
You'll work across the full stack to build and evolve a class-leading patient financial product used by millions of patients annually, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and partner engineering teams to turn ambitious ideas into clear technical plans and robust, production-ready software.
Beyond the technical work, you'll help shape team direction, coordinate complex development efforts, and mentor peers as we work together to make healthcare simpler, fairer, and more accessible for everyone.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Genuine full-stack experience (React/TypeScript and Python/Django or comparable), current project mix leans backend-heavy, so recent hands-on frontend work is still expected.
- 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.
- You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and love solving complex problems.
- You understand what matters to our end users, patients, and actively shape solutions to help drive the best outcomes for them.
- Hands-on experience leveraging GenAI and LLMs (preferred).
Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $170,000-$215,00
- 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
- Demonstrated proficiency in independent, hands-on coding and problem-solving, including handling complex edge cases, optimizing efficiency, and delivering robust solutions within time constraints.
- Full-stack experience with React and TypeScript, plus Python and Django or comparable technologies.
- Recent hands-on frontend development experience, with a backend-heavy project mix.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical ideas clearly and ask insightful questions.
- Commitment to engineering best practices, clean and maintainable code, thorough testing, and proactive technical debt management.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and solve complex problems.
- Ability to understand patient and end-user needs and shape solutions that improve outcomes.
- Hands-on experience leveraging generative AI and large language models.
What the Team is Saying
Cedar Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is highlighted, alongside fertility and family-forming support (e.g., up to $10,000 via Carrot) and inclusive supplemental care.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical, dental, and vision plan options are offered, with 24/7 EAP access and resources for mental and physical wellbeing.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — An unlimited PTO policy is paired with paid holidays, sick days, and periodic company-wide shutdowns, with encouragement to take at least 20 days off annually.
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
