Sr. Software Engineer (Communications & Login)

Cedar is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the patient financial experience. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Communications & Login squad, you'll be responsible for enhancing patient engagement through effective communication systems and personalized messaging.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver major features and platform improvements from concept to production
• Partner with product, design, and data to build scalable, patient-first communication systems
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technical direction for a growing squad
• Help revamp and scale our communications infrastructure for clarity, performance, and ownership
• Collaborate on personalization efforts—building data-driven, scalable systems that go beyond "tokenized" emails
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to engineers across experience levels
• Bring clarity to ambiguous problems and translate them into actionable technical plans
• Champion best practices around system design, testing, code review, and team collaboration
• Bring a strong sense of ownership to team deliverables and outcomes

Requirements:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in a full-stack role
• Strong communicator who collaborates well with cross-functional teams and non-technical stakeholders
• Skilled in mentoring peers and helping others grow through pairing, feedback, and guidance
• Experienced in designing systems with real-world scale, complexity, and ambiguity
• Comfortable with tradeoffs and pragmatic about architecture decisions
• Passionate about improving the healthcare experience through thoughtful, human-centered software
• Experience with personalized or segmented messaging systems
• Background working with communications platforms (e.g. SMS/email delivery, templating engines, experimentation frameworks)
• Familiarity with AI, LLMs, or machine learning models for personalization or messaging
• Comfort with Python/Django & React