Staff Technical Lead Manager (New Verticals)

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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