Staff Software Engineer - Application Engineering

Cohere Health

71d • $175,000 - $190,000

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Up to 184 hours (23 days) of PTO per year + company holidays.
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees