Sr. Engineering Manager - Payments
About The Position
Cedar's mission is to make healthcare more affordable and accessible by leveraging data science, smart product design, and personalization. As healthcare providers continue to use a one-size-fits-all approach to consumer engagement, Cedar aims to deliver a superior experience by applying consumer best practices. The company is expanding its product offerings, with payments at the core of its operations. To support these new offerings at scale, Cedar is evolving its payment capabilities and platform. This role is crucial for leading two Payments teams through this platform evolution, comprising both individual contributors and engineering managers. The current payments platform is tightly coupled with business logic, hindering scalability across multiple product lines. There are also opportunities to enhance system observability for better health monitoring, faster issue diagnosis, and an improved payment experience. The Payments Pillar's responsibilities extend beyond the platform itself, including enabling payment capabilities in agentic workflows, optimizing the Payments funnel performance, managing engineering partnerships with third-party payment vendors, and collaborating with Product and Commercial teams to prioritize client payment feature requests. The role involves working closely with staff and principal engineers to define technical direction, evaluate trade-offs, challenge assumptions, and contribute an independent perspective. While not requiring daily coding, the role demands comfort in design reviews, technical decision-making, deep service understanding, and accountability for outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional experience.
- 3+ years of engineering management experience.
- Experience managing managers.
- Experience owning third-party vendor integrations.
- Experience owning business-critical production systems and their performance, reliability, and operational health.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills, especially with Product and Commercial stakeholders.
- The ability to make sound judgments and advocate for the right balance between moving quickly, experimenting, and investing in foundational quality.
- Clear, proactive communication and a track record of navigating ambiguity, tradeoffs, and competing priorities.
- A commitment to holding a high bar for team execution and supporting the growth of engineers and engineering managers.
- Excitement about Cedar’s mission and a passion for improving the healthcare financial experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in payments, fintech, or a closely related domain.
- Experience modernizing or decoupling complex production systems.
- Experience supporting agentic or AI-enabled workflows at scale.
- Experience driving the adoption of agentic development practices and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate team velocity.
Responsibilities
- Partner with staff and principal engineers to lead the Payments Pillar through the evolution of Cedar’s Payments architecture, including decoupling payment capabilities from business logic so they can scale across multiple product lines and workflows.
- Lead, coach and develop Engineering Managers and individual contributors across the Payments Pillar, and support a high-performing and inclusive engineering culture.
- Establish and improve the metrics and instrumentation used to understand performance across payment features and workflows.
- Partner with Product and Commercial to balance new payment capabilities and performance improvements with foundational architecture and operational investments.
- Own the engineering relationship and technical outcomes for third-party payment vendor integrations.
- Identify opportunities to and lead initiatives that enable multiple teams to deliver results more effectively.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Equity eligible
- Competitive benefits and wellness package
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules
- Diversity initiatives
- Health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance
- 401(k) matching (100% match up to 3% of annual compensation)
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching
- Team discretionary budget for learning and development resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
