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.
As part of our continued growth and commitment to building impactful solutions, we are excited to hire an Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed product engineering team. This squad will be focused on empathetically engaging with patients across various communication channels to help them understand and improve their healthcare finances.
EMs at Cedar are responsible for their team’s success, balancing technical leadership with people development. You’ll be deeply involved in the engineering and design processes while coaching, mentoring, and guiding your team toward impactful results. With a strong user focus, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers to create scalable technical solutions and communicate effectively across teams and senior leadership.
You’ll take initiative and drive progress without waiting for permission or consensus - we love folks who thrive in a high-autonomy, resourceful, and occasionally ambiguous environment, capable of finding solutions even when the path isn't perfectly clear. You’ll prioritize simplicity in design, creating solutions that are elegant, durable, and easy to maintain. With a deep focus on user experience, you’ll build products that solve real problems and delight users. You’ll set and uphold a high quality bar, ensuring the team delivers polished, thoughtful products with attention to detail. You’ll take ownership beyond traditional role boundaries, offering strong perspectives on technical direction, customer experience, and product strategy while fostering a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous improvement.
In this position you will:
- Lead a full stack product engineering team of 4-6 engineers, balancing technical expertise with people management.
- Establish and nurture a team culture that’s empowering, supportive, and committed to engineering and product excellence.
- Collaborate closely with partners (product, design, etc.) to deliver outcomes while balancing technical quality and user experience.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, feedback, and development plans that support personal and professional growth.
- Build a diverse, high-performing team through thoughtful recruiting and onboarding.
- Drive your team’s roadmap creation and execution, working with Product to prioritize & scope.
- Cultivate an environment of trust through clear communication and transparency.
- Contribute to architectural and design discussions, ensuring technical solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with best practices.
- You'll foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to proactively identify technical debt, suggest architectural improvements, and optimize for efficiency.
- 7+ years of professional full-stack software development experience, including 1-2 years of engineering management, hiring, and team-building.
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex technical problems with clean, robust, and efficient code. You should be able to identify edge cases and contribute effectively to critical path technical work.
- Strong technical leadership and product acumen, with a history of taking complex problems and solving them elegantly.
- A commitment to growing talent through clear, thoughtful feedback and personalized development plans.
- Exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills, enabling you to navigate tough conversations, make hard decisions and tradeoffs, and ensure clear communication and alignment with product, design, and other engineering teams.
- Experience working in ambiguous, fast-moving teams that have built and shipped high-quality products at scale, demonstrating the ability to find independent solutions and adapt quickly to evolving challenges.
- Excitement about Cedar's mission and a commitment to solving problems for our patients.
- Strong computer science fundamentals (or similar experience) are expected.
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 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.
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Cedar San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, California, United States, 94123
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