Job Application for Staff Platform Engineer at Cohere Health

Opportunity Overview:

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. 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.

What you’ll do:

Platform Ownership: Lead the development and enhancement of Cohere’s data and AI platforms, ensuring that it is highly reusable, scalable, and optimized for performance.
Improved Reusability & Scalability: Design and implement platform components and reusable integration patterns that minimize custom development efforts, reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks, and ensure that integrations scale across multiple healthcare systems, payors, and third-party services.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across the development lifecycle, ensuring platform components are designed to meet the demands of high-volume healthcare integrations and are easy to maintain and extend.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Integration Ops, product teams, and solutions architects to understand integration needs and ensure the platform meets current and future business requirements.
Security & Compliance: Ensure all platform components and integrations comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, FHIR) and adhere to industry best practices for data security.
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.
Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, share best practices for building robust, scalable platforms, and lead by example in terms of platform development and design principles.

What you’ll need:

Experience: Minimum of 9 years in the software development lifecycle, with significant experience building and maintaining scalable data and AI platforms.
Platform Expertise: Deep experience in designing and building platforms that are used by data and ML engineering. Experience with data processing, data warehousing, and integrated ML tooling is critical.
Tech Stack: Expertise in Java (Spring) for backend development, Kafka for event streaming, AWS for cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments. Experience with Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools for scalability is a plus.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Strong communicator who can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (product, operations, architecture) to ensure platform components meet the needs of the business and drive efficiency.
Security & Compliance: Knowledge of healthcare industry standards (HIPAA, FHIR, HL7) and the ability to ensure that integrations comply with these regulations while being optimized for performance and scalability.
Development Practices: A commitment to high-quality code, with experience in version control, unit testing, CI/CD practices, and performance monitoring. Knowledge of monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch is a plus.
Problem-Solving: Ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and a streamlined integration experience for users.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Experience with healthcare integration technologies such as FHIR, HL7, and X12 is highly desirable.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queue systems to ensure high throughput and low latency in integrations.
Experience working with containerized applications and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes for scaling platform components.

Pay & Perks:

💻 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 

The salary range for this position is $170,000 to $185,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Interview Process*:

Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
Meet your Hiring Manager!
Live Design Exercise
Architecture Interview
Cross Functional Interview

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled. That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.

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