Lead Software Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Engineering department. In this role, you will work on a fast-paced, collaborative, agile team to build and enhance a growing software platform. You’ll have technical responsibility for end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements delivered by the team. This is an opportunity to define the customer-configurability capabilities of the Cohere platform..

What you’ll do:

• Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions
• Contribute heavily to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of our cloud platform and web applications
• Support all parts of our platform from the database to the frontend
• Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency
• Contribute to a culture committed to testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage
• Actively participate in ensuring Cohere maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security
• Foster a community of mentorship for junior engineers on your team

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 - 10 years of experience in software development lifecycle
• Experience building applications using React and TypeScript or another modern web framework
• Fluency in Java
• Experience designing and implementing scalable data services and APIs
• Hands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DataDog or Kafka, at least one
• Experience architecting and deploying software to modern cloud infrastructure using AWS and Terraform or CloudFormation
• You have experience working on software development teams, building and deploying full stack web applications
• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standards
• You can collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience
• You have experience with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CD
• You are a team player and are interested in working at a fast-paced startup environment
• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required
• Experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or Cucumber is a plus
• Experience leveraging Groovy and Micronaut is a plus

Pay & Perks:

💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account

🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

🐶 Pet insurance

The salary range for this position is $155,000 to $185,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Design Interview(s)
4. Cross-Functional Interview

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.

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