Sr Software Development Engineer

About the role

Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA business, enables payers, providers, employers, and service administrators to excel at value-based care with a unified technology and services platform delivering analytics, care, and payment technology on a single data management foundation. At Cedar Gate, you’ll be part of a collaborative, innovative environment where great ideas thrive. We invest deeply in our people through ongoing training, comprehensive benefits, and a strong culture of teamwork, offering the chance to grow your skills while contributing to high impact initiatives for some of the world's most dynamic companies.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and lead the development of complex U.S. healthcare software systems supporting both payer and provider use cases. This role blends deep hands-on engineering with architectural influence, playing a critical role across the full software development lifecycle.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance healthcare software systems
• Build and enhance platforms supporting claims adjudication, value-based care, bundled payments, and capitation models
• Contribute to architecture patterns, standards, and technical design decisions across payer and provider solutions
• Collaborate with product and business teams to translate healthcare requirements into technical solutions
• Write high-quality, maintainable code and guide teams on engineering best practices
• Review code, architecture, and system designs to ensure quality, compliance, and consistency
• Build proof-of-concepts and reusable frameworks to support innovation in population health and analytics platforms
• Develop APIs and services that enable interoperability across healthcare systems
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and modern engineering practices (CI/CD, DevOps)
• Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure acceptable)
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and reliability in high-volume claims processing environments
• Improve development processes, documentation, and operational procedures
• Foster strong collaboration across engineering, product, and healthcare domain stakeholders

Experience / Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience with strong hands-on coding responsibilities
• Experience building and delivering applications in healthcare claims or related domains
• Hands-on experience with claims adjudication systems or financial processing workflows
• Experience supporting value-based care, bundled payment models, or capitation systems
• Proficiency in .NET, Java, or both
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure acceptable)
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, multi-tenant, high-performance systems
• Strong database design and performance tuning expertise
• Experience building APIs and enabling interoperability (FHIR, HL7 experience is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and Agile development
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience building population health or healthcare analytics platforms is highly preferred
• Familiarity with payer-provider data integration and reporting systems is also highly preferred
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native architectures are preferred
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards and regulatory considerations are enhancements
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams
• Exposure to security and compliance requirements in healthcare systems would be preferred

Job Location

Houston, TX or Greenwich, CT highly preferred

Work Arrangement

Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 remote)

Pay

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $92,600.00 - $231,600.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time).