Sr. Software Engineer (Data Acquisition)

Cedar; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 195,500 - 247,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

Unlimited PTO

16 weeks paid parental leave

401(k) matching

Equity eligibility

Health benefits including fertility assistance

Job summary

A leading healthcare technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Data Acquisition team. This role focuses on designing resilient data systems that integrate with EMRs and billing vendors, enhancing healthcare innovation. Applicants should have extensive backend engineering experience, preferably in highly regulated environments. The position offers competitive compensation, flexibility in work location, and numerous benefits aimed at improving employee well-being.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in backend engineering, preferably in healthcare.
• Design and maintain robust data integrations.
• Navigate ambiguity and evolving requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design resilient data ingestion systems for healthcare.
• Transition to real-time streaming integrations.
• Mentor engineers through code review and shared design.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Data integration expertise

Major coding language proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication skills

Passion for healthcare software

Tools

Kafka

Flink

BI tools (Looker, Snowflake)

Job description

Sr. Software Engineer (Data Acquisition)

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Data Acquisition team, you’ll play a key role in one of the most technically challenging and strategically important areas of our platform: integrating Cedar with the complex and fragmented healthcare data ecosystem.

The Integrations team is building a platform to ingest and normalize healthcare billing data to power multiple Cedar products. It’s a high-impact, high-complexity space involving real-time data flows, and an ever-changing web of EMRs, hospital workflows, and third-party systems.

You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy solving for ambiguity, building durable systems in regulated environments, and working at the intersection of product, data, and healthcare infrastructure.

Why This Role Matters:

The biggest blocker to innovation in healthcare is often access to data. Every hospital system, EMR, and billing vendor does things slightly differently. That complexity makes innovation hard to scale.

This role is part of Cedar’s strategic push to fix that. You’ll help evolve our integration layer into a modern, flexible platform—one that can serve as a foundation for every product Cedar builds going forward.

The Work You’ll Lead:

• Design and implement resilient, secure data ingestion systems that integrate with hospital EMRs, billing vendors, and third-party platforms
• Help transition from batch ETL to real-time streaming integrations using standards like HL7, FHIR, and 835s
• Work closely with product, delivery, and commercial teams to understand integration requirements and translate them into durable solutions
• Allow Cedar to grow as a company by building a platform that empowers Product teams to acquire and manage their own data
• Collaborate on evolving the integrations architecture into a shared data platform powering multiple Cedar product lines
• Build tooling to accelerate the pace and reliability of new client integrations

You Will Also:

• Lead technical design and execution for critical integration initiatives
• Own systems end-to-end: from client data specs to deployment and monitoring
• Mentor engineers across the team through code review, pairing, and shared design
• Contribute to Cedar’s engineering culture by sharing your experience around interoperability, data pipelines, API design, or testing standards

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of backend engineering experience, ideally in healthcare or similarly complex and highly regulated data environments
• Experienced in designing, building, and maintaining robust data integrations
• Expertise in at least one major coding language
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, legacy systems, and evolving requirements
• Able to work cross-functionally with product managers, client stakeholders, and commercial partners
• Skilled at breaking down complex technical concepts into clear, actionable communication
• Passionate about improving healthcare through better software

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working directly with EMRs, clearinghouses, or healthcare billing systems
• Familiar with HL7, FHIR, 835/837, or similar interoperability standards
• Familiarity with real-time streaming tools (Kafka, Flink, etc.)
• Prior experience in regulated domains like healthcare, fintech, or insurance
• Exposure to platform-level thinking (e.g. designing shared systems across products)
• Comfortable using BI tools (e.g. Looker, Snowflake) to investigate data-level issues

Compensation Range and Benefits:

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $195,500 - $247,250
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package

*Subject to location, experience, and education

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
• 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
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to mentorship, coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development

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. Cedar has become a leading healthcare technology company with strong growth. As of 2024, Cedar engages with millions of patients annually and partners with numerous leading healthcare providers and payers.

Our goal is to solve billing and patient experience issues and to fix data access challenges that enable innovation across Cedar’s product lines.