Staff Software Engineer - Payment Solutions
Cohere Health3 months ago
Base Salary
$185k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across architecture and system design while mentoring junior engineers.
- Lead development and enhancement of configurable, performance-optimized AI-powered applications and platforms.
- Design data and retrieval architectures that provide AI agents with appropriate context from diverse healthcare sources.
- Design, review, and own production code while contributing hands-on alongside the engineering team.
- Lead releases and production deployments, reduce developer friction, and support on-call operations.
- Drive technical strategy for observability, instrumentation, performance, security, privacy, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with machine learning, data science, product, and architecture teams to translate requirements into effective systems.
- Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives while aligning engineering work with product and business priorities.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software development lifecycle experience with progression to complex, high-impact cloud-native system design.
- Expertise in authentication and authorization frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing.
- Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills.
- Full-stack expertise in modern programming languages, event-driven systems, and CI/CD; infrastructure as code is a plus.
- Experience designing data systems and pipelines for analytical and AI workloads, with strong data modeling fundamentals.
- Track record of shaping engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and communicating strategy to technical and non-technical audiences.
- AI architecture experience involving multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, or evaluation frameworks is a plus.
- Healthcare technology, health plan, or payment integrity experience is a plus; healthcare interoperability standards and clinical ontologies are also advantageous.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Fully remote-first/remote opportunity with about 5% travel, including possible travel to Boston, MA for onboarding and occasional in-person meetings and events.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plus an Employee Assistance Program.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match, flexible spending account, and health savings account.
- Flexible time off and company holidays.
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Pet insurance.
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About Cohere Health
Cohere Health builds a clinical intelligence and operations platform used by U.S. health plans and provider organizations to streamline prior authorization and align care with evidence-based policies. Its SaaS products connect payers and providers across utilization management, policy management, and payment accuracy workflows, reducing administrative burden and speeding decisions. Founded in 2019, the privately held company is headquartered remotely and sells enterprise contracts to national and regional health plans.