Staff Software Engineer (Payment Solutions)

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Flexible Time Off & Holidays
• 401(K) Retirement Plan with Employer Match Program
• Wellness Coach App
• Parental Leave
• Learning & Development Opportunities- AI architectures (multi-agent, RAG, evaluation frameworks) a plus
• Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills
• 12+ years in the software development lifecycle, with progression to complex, high-impact cloud-native system design
• Fullstack expertise in modern languages, event-driven systems, and CI/CD; IaC a plus
• Expertise in auth/authz frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 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
• Healthcare tech, health plan, or Payment Integrity experience a plus; Healthcare interoperability standards and clinical ontologies a plus- Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
• Meet your Hiring Manager!
• Live System Design
• Project Discussion
• Cross Functional Interview
• *Subject to change