Staff Software Engineer, Payment Platform

Cedar

124d • $216,750 - $280,000

About The Position

Cedar is seeking a staff engineer to embed in the Payments Platform team and lead technical strategy across multiple related squads. The Payments Platform squad is responsible for building and maintaining the core payment processing infrastructure that powers all Cedar applications and ensures seamless transactions for our patients. This isn’t a typical Staff role—you’ll own the systems that power money movement from authentication through settlement, shaping how millions of patients experience paying for care.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record as a backend architect—designing APIs, services, and event-driven systems that scale reliably.
• A demonstrated track record of leading large technical projects that span multiple engineering teams and require multi-functional teamwork.
• Experience leading vendor integrations, especially building a platform with various vendor integrations with consolidation.
• Experience raising standards across teams—mentoring not just juniors but also senior engineers through code/design review, setting patterns, and influencing architecture forums.
• Ability to scale solutions and build for long-term supportability.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to drive projects from ideation through to completion.
• Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical cross-functional teams.
• A natural inclination for ownership with a bias-for-action mindset.
• Excitement about our mission and a passion for solving problems to improve the healthcare financial experience.

Nice To Haves

• Payments experience sets ahead, but is not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-impact projects in the Payment product space.
• Bring clarity to highly ambiguous projects and ensure we are building for long-term scalability and robustness.
• Develop a deep understanding of payment lifecycles and vendors' functionalities, identify improvement opportunities to streamline the payment experience and reduce cost.
• Collaborate with your counterparts on the product, design, and commercial teams to understand patient challenges and formulate technical strategies to address them.
• Drive key technical initiatives such as invoice payment decoupling.
• Evaluate build vs buy tradeoffs, influence vendor strategy, and advocate for what’s best for patients and the business.
• Mentor engineers at all levels and uplevel them through training and sharing best practices.
• Drive org-level changes to improve existing processes, infrastructure, architecture, business problems, team well-being, and development satisfaction.

Benefits

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range: $216,750 - $280,000.
• This role is equity eligible.
• This role offers a 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.
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees