Lead Software Engineer

Cohere HealthUnited StatesPosted July 6, 2026

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About this role

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 $175,000 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*:

• Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening

• Meet your Hiring Manager!

• Design Interview(s)

• 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 c

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