Sr. Software Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

Cohere Health is at the forefront of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to transform prior authorization, shifting from transaction-based processes to creating elevated care journeys. By integrating AI into healthcare decisioning, we aim to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ultimately enhance patient care. This is a unique opportunity to join our rapidly growing Clinical Intelligence team, where you’ll work on building impactful healthcare technologies that streamline and optimize the prior authorization process using AI/ML and Advanced Rules Engines.

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to the functional & technical roadmap for the team, working alongside cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact deterministic rules-based and AI-driven healthcare automation solutions.
• Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions
• Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency
• Contribute heavily to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of our cloud platform and web applications
• Support all parts of our platform from the database to the frontend
• Drive daily engineering release once 2-4 times a month
• Perform production support duties 1-2 times a year. 

What we looking for:

• You have experience working on software development teams, building and deploying full stack web applications
• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standards
• You can collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience
• You have experience with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CD
• You are a team player and are interested in working at a fast-paced startup environment

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, software engineering, or equivalent experience in the field.
• Minimum of 6 - 8 years of full time experience in software development lifecycle, required Proficiency with Java/Groovy or Python
• Experience building applications using React and Javascript. TypeScript is a plus 
• Familiarity with cloud development AWS/Azure
• Hands on experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or Cucumber is a plus, but not required
• Experience using relational (MySql, Postgres) and NoSQL (Dynamo, Elastic, Mongo) datastores along with data access patterns and strategies.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of ownership for the entire SDLC, including designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting production services in a fast-paced environment. 
• Be self-starter requiring minimal direction with ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements
• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required

Nice-to-haves

• Integrating AI/LLM-based systems into product workflows.
• Open source or community projects. 
• Designing or implementing agent based systems or AI products involving autonomous or task-driven agents. 

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition 
2. Meet with the Hiring Manager
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Case Study
5. Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. 

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

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.

ISMS roles and responsibilities:

• Good knowledge of Information practices.
• Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
• Ensuring the  team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
• Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.