Staff Engineer - Tech Lead (Payments)

U.S. healthcare is frustrating and deeply flawed. Cedar's mission is to drive better outcomes for everyone involved, including providers, insurance companies and the people they serve. At a time when consumer-friendly healthcare experiences are more critical than ever, our platform is uniquely equipped to solve problems that lead to billing issues and administrative waste. At Cedar, know that your work will have a meaningful impact on people's lives.
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. The platform optimizes data science and technology to deliver modern intelligence to health providers and payers, and most importantly simplify the healthcare experience for patients.
Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment so this, as well as many of our other roles, is remote-friendly.
The Role
As we continue to rapidly grow our client base, we are in need of a Staff Engineer to serve as the tech lead for the Payments team . Payments is core to Cedar's business to process bill pay from patients and support Cedar's expansion with integrations with various payment processors and gateways. Besides, we build and maintain functionality, features, and workflows as part of a sprawling payments platform that supports all Cedar applications (e.g., Cedar Pay, Cedar Pre and Operator).
Responsibilities

• Design and build new features for our core products with reliability and scalability.
• Architect a payment platform to standardize and enable faster, scalable integration with various payment processors and gateways.
• Support engineers with technical mentorship, delegate tasks, and perform hands-on coding and code reviews.
• Support your counterparts on the product and client success teams on understanding and solving payment problems, formulating technical strategy, and enhancing the payment platform.
• Mentoring engineers at a variety of levels (junior through senior). Be a role model and trusted advisor for passionate and driven team members.
• Driving org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, developer happiness, etc. Think broadly about opportunities to level-up the engineering org.

What we look for in a candidate:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• You are excited about our missions and want to solve problems for our patients.
• Backend focused with deep knowledge of Payment processing.
• Experience leading large technical projects that span multiple engineering teams and require multi-functional teamwork.
• Experience mentoring engineers across all levels.
• Experience owning a business-critical application, standing up complex new systems, and building for supportability and long-term maintenance.
• Ability to help the team ship by guiding teammates through making practical tradeoffs in high stakes situations and jumping in to help get through a prod blocker.
• Ability to debug complex issues involving subtle interactions between multiple systems and libraries.
• Ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts simply.

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of SQL and prior experience using BI tools such as Snowflake and Looker to build a deeper understanding of data syncs.
• Deep knowledge of Python and Django internals.
• Experience influencing multi-functional decision making across product and design teams.

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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
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• 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 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)
• 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend 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.
Today, Cedar helps over 15 million patients annually-and partners with more than 50 leading healthcare providers, including Yale New Haven Health, Summit Health, Novant Health, Allina Health, Providence, ChristianaCare, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, CommonSpirit Health and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.