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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - Payment Solutions - **Company:** Cohere Health - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $185,000.0 - $225,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Data Systems, Distributed Systems, Interoperability, Scrum Methodology, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Multi-Agent Systems, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Production Code - **Published:** August 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f26d3b45-0455-43a8-b907-9ec65dbfeb3c ## About the Role * 12+ years in the software development lifecycle, with progression to complex, high-impact cloud-native system design * Expertise in auth/authz frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing * Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills * Fullstack expertise in modern languages, event-driven systems, and CI/CD; IaC a plus * Experience designing data systems/pipelines for analytical and AI workloads, with strong data modeling fundamentals * Track record shaping engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and communicating strategy across technical and non-technical audiences * AI architectures (multi-agent, RAG, evaluation frameworks) a plus * Healthcare tech, health plan, or Payment Integrity experience a plus; Healthcare interoperability standards and clinical ontologies a plus * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience ## Description We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payment Solutions team. In this role, designing, developing, and scaling highly available AI healthcare products supporting payment integrity workflows across providers, payers, and delegated entities. You'll direct a fast-paced, autonomous, agile team of software engineers in the design, development, and operational support of a growing enterprise platform. This is an opportunity to drive technical excellence at the intersection of healthcare interoperability and modern distributed systems. 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. What you'll do: * Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, and mentor junior engineers for building scalable SaaS products. * Platform Ownership: Lead the development and enhancement of Cohere's AI-powered applications and platforms, ensuring that it is highly configurable, and optimized for performance. * Data & Retrieval Architecture: Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context, across diverse healthcare sources. * Hands-On Engineering: Design, review, and own high-quality production code - actively contributing alongside the team, leading releases, production deployments, reducing developer development friction and on-call support. * NFR, Security & Compliance: Drive technical strategy to ensure the team's designs consistently address non-functional requirements - observability, instrumentation, performance, and operational readiness that incorporate security and privacy regulations * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with ML/DS teams, product teams, and architects to understand requirements and ensure systems meet business needs. * Agile Development: Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives, driving efficiency and velocity within the engineering team and collaborating closely with stakeholders to align with product goals and business priorities. ## Related Videos - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1447-designing-the-future-of-human-agent-collaboration) - [From Bedside Beeps to Interoperable Bytes – Getting your medical devices ready to talk the IEEE 11073 language](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/771-from-bedside-beeps-to-interoperable-bytes-getting-your-medical-devices-ready-to-talk-the-ieee-11073-language) - [Migrating half a million users to a new payment service provider](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/730-migrating-half-a-million-users-to-a-new-payment-service-provider) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/162-highest-paying-tech-companies-in-europe) - [Best Countries for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/267-best-countries-for-software-engineers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology) - [React Developer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/198-react-developer-salary-2023)