Software Engineer

About Cohere Health

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. Our 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 the acquisition of ZignaAI, we've expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition, including being recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

About the Role

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. You will 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the functional & technical roadmap, 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.

ISMS Roles and Responsibilities

• Possess good knowledge of Information Security practices.
• Assist the manager in all information security activities implementation and maintenance processes.
• Ensure the team is imparted with competence related to Information Security.
• Responsible for the implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 4 - 6 years of full-time experience in the software development lifecycle.
• 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.
• 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 a self-starter requiring minimal direction with the ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.
• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

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

Interview Process

• Connect with Talent Acquisition
• Meet with the Hiring Manager
• Behavioral Interview(s)
• Case Study
• Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change