Staff Software Engineer, Cohere Health
Application Engineering
$175-190k
+ Bonus
More information about location
Simplifying healthcare for patients and their doctors
Be an early applicant
Simplifying healthcare for patients and their doctors
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-190k
+ Bonus
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the healthcare journey better for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex problems in healthcare, have deep expertise in building distributed systems, and want to influence architecture and engineering practices at scale
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a staff/principal/lead role
- Expertise in designing and scaling distributed, cloud-native applications (AWS preferred)
- Strong background in one or more modern languages: Python, Java, TypeScript/React
- Proven track record of driving system architecture, technical strategy, and execution
- Experience working in healthcare technology or other regulated environments, strongly preferred
- Demonstrated success in mentoring and growing engineering talent
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is experiencing rapid growth
- You will play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms
- Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance
- As a Staff Engineer on the Application Engineering team, you will serve as a senior technical leader—responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, scalable software systems that power Cohere Health’s core platform
- You’ll act as a multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, and clinical teams to deliver solutions that meet compliance, quality, and performance standards
- Define and drive the architecture of large-scale, distributed application systems across the Cohere platform
- Ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and compliant with NCQA, CMS, and payer requirements
- Champion engineering best practices in CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in modern frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/React, Java/Kotlin)
- Lead the development of core features and APIs that directly impact providers, payers, and patients
- Partner with DevOps and Data teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and operational readiness
- Embed automated testing, monitoring, and release safeguards into the development lifecycle
- Proactively address compliance and audit-readiness requirements in application design
- Collaborate with Quality, Security, and Compliance stakeholders to close CAP issues and maintain high delivery standards
- Mentor engineers across the team, guiding them on technical design, code quality, and system thinking
- Lead design reviews, technical deep-dives, and incident retrospectives to foster continuous improvement
- Act as a thought leader in scaling engineering practices across multiple teams
- Work closely with Product, Clinical, and Operations teams to ensure solutions meet real-world healthcare needs
- Partner with Release Management to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery and quick resolution of hotfixes
Application process
- Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
- Meet your Hiring Manager!
- Live Design Exercise
- Architecture Discussion
- Cross-Functional Interview
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 the prior authorization process, a time-consuming manual system that the company aims to modernize with its CohereNext platform.
Cohere Health's platform automates the authorization process to help avoid care delays and friction between parties, while also providing analytics to identify the most suitable physicians and care paths for the patient. While there are a host of other solutions that also automate these tasks, Cohere claims to stand out 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. By securing impressive funding, the company has been able to scale beyond its pandemic-era initial success, to be recognized as a top player in the space. Its latest release is "Cohere Unify", an end-to-end solution for administrative efficiency that is driven by advanced analytics and AI/ML algorithms.
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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