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:
Cedar is making major improvements to the patient financial experience. We hope to eliminate the burden of billing for patients and providers by delivering a comprehensive, personalized, and connected financial experience.
As part of our vision to create a smoother patient billing experience, we are in need of a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our Design System squad. Our team builds new components for cross-team use, tackles the most challenging frontend issues across Cedar and evangelizes best practices with other product engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of high-impact, frontend-focused product features across multiple squads
- Author flexible UI components that will be utilized in the Cedar product ecosystem
- Lead frontend modernization efforts in a hands-on way for products used by millions of patients
- Mentor team members at all levels and uplevel their frontend expertise through trainings, documentation, PR reviews & 1:1 mentorship
- Ensure we are building for long term maintainability, particularly with respect to accessibility compliance
- Work autonomously and creatively in navigating and overcoming obstacles that you encounter
- Support your counterparts on the product & design teams on understanding and solving patient problems, playing a key role in the product development process.
- Develop, review, and maintain efficient and reliable code.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 8+ years building web front-ends using technologies like React / TypeScript / Next.js etc
- Mastery of front-end development languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as design tools like Figma, with strong attention to detail
- Experience working with design systems - you’ve authored and maintained UI components that are accessible, performant, scalable, and robust
- Experience with accessibility guidelines such as WCAG
- Experience with frontend technologies such as Webpack / Yarn / Sass etc
- Comfortable working autonomously with product designers, product managers, and engineers to create delightful user-facing experiences
- Some experience with Python or another backend programming language - you should be comfortable understanding a back-end code base and making changes
Compensation Range and Benefits:
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $195,500 - $230,000
- This role is equity eligible
- This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
*Subject to location, experience, and education
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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 PTO 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 the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and 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 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 from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, bringing Cedar’s valuation to $3.2 billion.
As of December 2023, Cedar is engaging with 25 million patients on an annualized basis, and is on target to process $2.6 billion in patient payments annually. Cedar’s ambition is to serve 50-60 million Americans by 2025, about half of the U.S. population that makes medical 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.
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What We Do
With an innovative platform that connects providers and payers, Cedar empowers healthcare consumers with a personalized journey from appointment confirmation to payment—all powered by data science and interactive design. We're solving the biggest problems in healthcare, and we'd love your help. Explore our page to learn why we're a great place to work.
Why Work With Us
At Cedar, you’ll work with a smart, talented team, devoted to solving a problem that impacts millions of consumers annually. We offer competitive pay, great healthcare, stock options, unlimited PTO, daily lunch and snacks, wellness offerings, and more—plus the exciting opportunity to join a high-growth company.
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