Staff Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Offer technical guidance across system design, architecture, and mentor junior engineers in the development of scalable SaaS products.

• Spearhead the development and enhancement of Cohere’s AI-driven applications and platforms, ensuring optimal configurability and performance.

• Architect data and retrieval systems that furnish AI agents with the necessary context from various healthcare sources.

• Design, assess, and take ownership of high-caliber production code.

• Actively engage with the team, oversee releases and production deployments, minimize developer friction, and provide on-call assistance.

• Propel technical strategy to address observability, instrumentation, performance, operational readiness, security, and compliance with privacy regulations.

• Collaborate with ML/DS teams, product teams, and architects to comprehend requirements and fulfill business objectives.

• Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, while enhancing engineering efficiency and velocity.

• Align engineering efforts with product objectives and business priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in the software development lifecycle, progressing to intricate, high-impact cloud-native system design.

• Proficiency in authentication/authorization frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing.

• Strong abilities in system design, observability, and production operations.

• Fullstack expertise in modern programming languages, event-driven systems, and CI/CD; experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a plus.

• Background in designing data systems and pipelines for analytical and AI workloads, with robust data modeling fundamentals.

• Proven track record in shaping engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and conveying strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience with AI architectures (multi-agent systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, evaluation frameworks) is advantageous.

• Experience in healthcare technology, health plans, or Payment Integrity is a plus.

• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards and clinical ontologies is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position with approximately 5% travel required.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with an Employee Assistance Program.

• 401K retirement plan with company matching.

• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.

• Flex Time Off plus company holidays.

• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Pet insurance.

• Bonus included in the total benefits package.