The Role

U.S. healthcare is frustrating and deeply flawed. Cedars mission is to drive better outcomes for everyone involved, including providers, insurance companies and the people they serve. At a time when consumer-friendly healthcare experiences are more critical than ever, our platform is uniquely equipped to solve problems that lead to billing issues and administrative waste. At Cedar, know that your work will have a meaningful impact on peoples lives.

Cedar is growing rapidly and data is at the core of everything we do! We build analytics for our clients and our teams to inform the product development process. We tell stories about all aspects of the patient journey and use quantitative analyses to explain patient behavior. We run experiments to test our various hypotheses and iterate using our results. We build models to drive better decision-making, both within our organization and for our clients in the healthcare industry.

As the scale of the data that we collect has grown, we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our new Data Core team!  As a Senior Data Engineer, you will work closely with our Data Products and Data Science team, lead implementation of robust and scalable data pipelines for analytics and data applications. This is a great opportunity to work in a non-siloed, collaborative meritocracy on challenging problems with other scientists and engineers.

* Cedar is committed to a flexible work environment, so this as well as many of our roles are remote friendly.

Responsibilities:

• Build and optimize the process of analytics aggregations and experimentation data pipelines
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, product managers and business development teams to understand data needs and transform these into usable data products.
• Partner with analytics to systematize and scale high-integrity value-oriented analysis.
• Partner with other engineering teams to guide refactors of existing data infrastructure to improve data quality and features.
• Identify and resolve issues that may negatively impact data product timelines or quality. Troubleshoot transformations for data consistency and integrity.

Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years experience in designing, building and maintaining data pipelines.
• Experience working with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL, or MySQL
• Experience with Python and ORM tools such as SQL Alchemy
• Solid understanding of data warehouse
• Demonstrates a passion for breaking down and understanding complex systems and data structures
• A great teammate with excellent communication and listening skills.
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment, comfortable with ambiguity
• Excited about Cedars mission of improving the healthcare financial experience
• Encompass Cedars core values: mission driven, no mediocrity, use good judgement, positivity
• Strong computer science fundamentals - a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or similar experience
• Eligible to work in the United States

Prefered Skills and Experiences

• Experience with AWS data services/tools such as Redshift, S3, Athena, Glue is preferred.
• Experience with data warehouse or data lake solutions such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift
• Experience with MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark is preferred

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
• Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health dayswe encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation 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 three employee resource groups: [email protected] (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians) 
• Competitive pay, stock options and health benefits that start on your first day
• 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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