Senior Software Engineer, Cohere Health
Client Implementations
$128-145k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Clinical intelligence company
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Clinical intelligence company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$128-145k
+ Bonus
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the healthcare journey better for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing scope and ownership
- Strong backend development experience using Java or Groovy, including designing and operating production-grade services
- Experience building modern web applications with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g., MongoDB), including schema design and query optimization
- Demonstrated ability to own and deliver epic-sized efforts — decomposing work into milestones, leading execution, and shipping with design-doc quality
- Experience building systems that integrate with external partners or upstream data sources, including APIs and event- or message-driven workflows (Kafka or similar)
- Proficiency with modern development practices including version control (Git), automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across team boundaries with product, design, and engineering partners
- Proven ability to mentor other engineers and elevate team quality through reviews and technical guidance
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience in healthcare or life sciences industry, plus
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7), plus
- Experience with multi-tenant systems handling client-specific configurations at scale, plus
- Experience with API decomposition or monolith-to-services migration patterns, plus
- Hands-on experience with test frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, or Jest, plus
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed systems at scale, plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team
- In this role, you will build and operate mission-critical healthcare technology that powers prior authorization for health plans covering 15+ million members
- You'll work across the full stack — backend services, event-driven pipelines, and provider-facing web applications — to deliver systems that healthcare practitioners and clinical operations teams depend on daily
- You'll partner closely with product, design, clinical, and platform teams to ship high-quality software in a complex, multi-tenant healthcare environment
- This is an opportunity to solve distributed systems problems where engineering quality directly impacts patient access to care
- Own epic-level efforts end-to-end — from technical design and milestone decomposition through implementation, testing, and production deployment
- Design, build, and maintain services and applications across the full stack: backend (Java, Groovy/Grails), frontend (React, TypeScript), data (MongoDB), and event-driven messaging (Kafka)
- Proactively identify systemic technical risks including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, data consistency issues, and accumulated technical debt — proposing and executing solutions
- Evaluate technical approaches through design docs, pilots, and experiments — documenting decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes to inform team direction
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing — fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and technical excellence
- Lead technical design discussions, bringing data-driven analysis and written tradeoffs to resolve ambiguity and align cross-functional stakeholders
- Ensure launch readiness for your epics — comprehensive testing, rollout strategy, monitoring, and rollback plans — coordinating across teams when dependencies exist
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, design, clinical, platform) to deliver high-quality experiences while balancing quality, delivery timelines, and operational constraints
Application process
- Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
- Meet your Hiring Manager!
- Feature Design
- System Design
- Behavioral Interview(s)
Our take
Every year, billions of dollars are wasted in healthcare through overtreatment, failure of care coordination and administrative complexity. Cohere Health blames this on outdated processes, time-consuming manual systems and slow decision-making - which the company aims to combat with its clinical intelligence platform.
The platform automates processes to avoid care delays and friction between parties. It also provides analytics to help identify the most suitable physicians and care paths for the patient much faster and more easily. While there are other automation solutions for healthcare, Cohere stand outs by improving the whole patient journey, rather than just automating an administrative transaction.
Through partnerships with organizations like Humana and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Cohere Health serves millions of members and thousands of physicians. It has grown to be recognized as a top player in the space, as it continues to expand its offering and stands to benefit from the rising interest in clinical intelligence.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$90m
SERIES C
Feb 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $196m
Company benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Flexible Time Off & Holidays
- 401(K) Retirement Plan with Employer Match Program
- Wellness Coach App
- Parental Leave
- Learning & Development Opportunities
Company HQ
West End, Boston, MA
Leadership
Siva Namasivayam
(CEO)Worked as a Software Engineer for Intel before working at Fidelity and spending 4 years as a Gartner Director of Consulting. They were CEO of SCIO Health Analytics before co-founding Cohere Health.
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