Platform Engineer III
cedarSpringfield (IL)
$170,000-$215,000
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cedarSpringfield (IL)
SENIORITY
Lead
SALARY
$170,000-$215,000
About the role
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:
Our Platform Testing team builds the tooling, frameworks, and standards that help every Cedar engineering team test more effectively. We’re hiring an engineer with deep testing expertise to make our large test suite faster and more reliable, shape how we test services as our architecture evolves, and identify where our biggest risks are. You’ll write production-quality code, own well-defined problems independently, and partner with senior engineers in a broader direction. Because Cedar builds healthcare technology, better testing directly improves the experience for patients, providers, and customers. This role is remote across the United States.
What you will do:
- Build tooling and metrics that make test quality visible, including reliability, flakiness, and coupling
- Establish code-coverage measurement and help teams close gaps in the highest-risk areas
- Improve service-to-service testing as our architecture becomes more distributed
- Integrate testing capabilities into CI/CD and developer workflows with Platform engineers
- Make great testing easier through better frameworks, documentation, and standards
- Help connect tests to product behavior and feature specifications
- Own projects end to end, from investigation to adoption, and measure their impact on quality
- What We Look For4–7 years in software engineering, or as an SDET with substantial software development responsibilities
- Proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScriptDeep knowledge of testing strategies from unit through end-to-end, and hands-on use of frameworks such as pytest, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, or Playwright
- You’ve implemented CI/CD pipelines, including collecting and reporting on test results
- You’ve measured test suites through metrics such as coverage, reliability, execution time, or flakiness
- Ability to work cross-functionally to improve processes, and to bring in the right people when a problem needs broader input
- Strong written and verbal communication, including turning testing strategy into clear standards and documentation
- Comfort working independently once a problem is defined, and genuine curiosity about how software fails
Nice to Have:
- Service-to-service or contract testing (e.g., Pact, Testcontainers), especially during an architecture migration
- You’ve built a test framework from scratch
- Time on a platform, developer productivity, or internal tooling team, ideally within a product engineering organization
- You’ve built AI-assisted testing tools or tested LLM-powered applications
- Familiarity with Go or Kotlin, or eagerness to pick up new languages
- Compensation Range and Benefits
- Salary Range*: $170,000-$215,000 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
- 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 vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge16 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 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, including fertility & adoption assistance, 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 & have the active support of Thrive and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).As of November 2024, Cedar is engaging with 26 million patients annually and is on target to process $3.5 billion in patient 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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