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# Staff Software Engineer

- **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, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Multi-Agent Systems, Agentic-AI, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Production Code
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-cohere-health-9021929

## 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

## Description

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering department. In this role, you will direct a fast-paced, collaborative, agile team of software engineers in the design, development, and scaling of highly available AI healthcare products on the Cohere platform. You'll set the technical direction for how the platform evolves - owning architecture and design decisions that span multiple teams and outlive any single release. This is an opportunity to drive technical excellence, define customer-configurability capabilities, and establish patterns other teams build on 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.