Platform Engineering Manager - Platform Testing

The Role

Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. Our platform leverages data science and technology to deliver modern intelligence to providers and simplify the healthcare experience for patients.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead Cedar’s Platform Testing team. This team owns the systems, strategy, and developer experience that help Cedar ship high-quality software quickly and confidently.

About Cedar

Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. Our platform leverages data science and technology to deliver modern intelligence to providers and simplify the healthcare experience for patients.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Cedar’s Platform Testing team, including strategy, execution, talent development, and stakeholder alignment.
• Develop and execute a testing platform roadmap that improves developer velocity, product reliability, and confidence in releases.
• Partner with Staff Engineers and Architects to implement testing strategies as we move toward service-oriented architecture, including patterns for service-to-service validation, test environment strategy, and product-aligned coverage.
• Improve the developer experience of testing by reducing slow feedback loops, lowering test environment friction, and making failures easier to understand and act on.
• Own and evolve internal QA environment strategy, including cost-effective environments that support Delivery, Product, and Integrations partners during go-lives.
• Drive solutions for testing model settings, entitlements, and other complex configuration-driven behavior.
• Help reshape Cedar’s current testing approach into a deliberate strategy that balances unit, integration, end-to-end, contract, and environment-based testing.
• Promote testing best practices across engineering through documentation, training, stakeholder engagement, and direct collaboration with product engineering teams.
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and internal customers to understand pain points and translate them into clear platform investments.
• Explore and apply LLM-powered workflows for code review, test generation, validation, and quality automation.
• Manage and grow engineers on the team, including coaching, performance management, career development, and hiring.
• Create a culture of high ownership, technical excellence, pragmatic decision-making, and continuous improvement.

What We Look For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to testing, developer experience, infrastructure, CI/CD, or platform engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
• Experience building or operating systems that support software delivery, such as CI pipelines, test infrastructure, release tooling, internal platforms, or developer productivity systems.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across reliability, cost, developer experience, and delivery speed.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders and translating ambiguous needs into concrete plans.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write strategy documents, project proposals, and clear technical guidance.
• Experience developing engineers through coaching, feedback, delegation, and career development.
• A bias toward action and ownership in complex, evolving environments.

Bonus Points

• Experience with service-oriented architecture, contract testing, integration testing, or distributed systems validation.
• Experience with Python, Django, Go, Kotlin, or large monorepos.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD systems.
• Experience with AWS, containers, Kubernetes, or cloud-based test environments.
• Experience building internal platforms or self-service tooling for engineers.
• Experience applying LLMs or AI-assisted workflows to software development, testing, review, or developer productivity.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, or another regulated domain where reliability and correctness matter.
• Experience leading talks, workshops, focus groups, or internal training programs.

What Success Looks Like

• In the first year, you will have developed a clear roadmap and strategy for Platform Testing, built strong alignment with stakeholders, grown talent on the team, and filled key team gaps through internal development or hiring.
• In the first six months, you will have made meaningful progress on three critical problems: Cost-effective QA environments that support Delivery, Product, and Integrations partners with a user-friendly setup process. A testing pipeline and management approach for model settings and entitlements. A cohesive strategy for testing services as Cedar moves further into service-oriented architecture.
• Longer term, success means Cedar’s engineers ship faster with higher confidence, our validation strategy scales with system complexity, and Platform Testing becomes a critical enabler of Cedar’s reliability and competitive advantage.

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.