Staff Technical Lead Manager (New Verticals)
Cedar
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See open jobs at Cedar.See open jobs similar to "Staff Technical Lead Manager (New Verticals)" SV Angel.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:
The New Verticals squad is a dynamic group operating like a startup within a startup, focused on expanding Cedar’s product and technologies into new verticals (such as dental) beyond traditional healthcare. This team is pivotal in achieving Cedar’s strategic growth objectives.
As the Staff Technical Lead Manager, you will serve as both the technical leader, as well as the individual people manager, for the New Verticals squad. You’ll work alongside a small, experienced team of leaders, including one of our founders, who have built and scaled unicorn products to develop new solutions for healthcare payment experiences. You’ll thrive in an environment with rapid iteration where you can directly impact outcomes.
If you love fast-paced development, direct interaction with customers, and learning how to launch new products and businesses, then this is the role for you!
Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment. As such, this role, along with many others, is remote friendly, though you are also more than welcome to join us at our beautiful office space in New York City.
Gain further insight into this opportunity by viewing this video featuring the hiring manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IFJUnt72-I
In this position you will:
- Act as the technical leader and manager of a team of 3+ engineers delivering features across the stack.
- Work closely with your product counterpart to decide which products and features to build. You’ll often be part of design and prioritization conversations.
- Write, review, and ship code alongside your team. You will be both a technical leader and individual contributor.
- Interact with end users of the products and features you develop. As part of a fast-moving team developing new products, you’ll have many opportunities to meet directly with our end users.
- Collaborate with other staff+ engineers and managers across engineering on engineering-wide organization, technical, and process initiatives. As a staff level engineer you will also proactively identify and lead out on a subset of these initiatives.
- A key part of this role will be striking the right balance of maintaining high quality, and lean process introduction, while still enabling a culture of extremely fast delivery and learning.
What we look for in an ideal candidate:
- Ability to creatively tackle both product and technical challenges. On this team, you’ll receive high-level problems instead of detailed requirement documents, tasking you with finding solutions that balance technical excellence, pragmatism, and speed.
- Sincere interest in managing and growing engineers.
- Be a proactive, positive team player. In our small group, everyone's contributions matter, and we expect you to actively collaborate to find solutions.
- Experience leading ambiguous and complex technical problems across the stack with a strong ownership mentality, focused on delivering value.
- Proficient in backend languages (Python/Java/Ruby/C#) and frontend technologies (JavaScript/TypeScript, React/Angular), with experience in full-stack frameworks (Django/Rails).
- Demonstrated ability to set and influence a technical vision for your team and beyond.
- 7+ years of experience in a software development role.
- Bonus: Previous people management experience.
- Bonus: Familiarity with GraphQL, Docker, and Docker Compose.
Compensation Range and Benefits:
- Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $216,750 - $255,000
- 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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