Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform at 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 leading edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health insurance plans covering over 15 million people, 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, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcares Fierce 15 and CB Insights Digital Health 150 lists.

Opportunity Overview:

This is a unique opportunity to join a software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will build impactful healthcare technology on a modern stack utilizing your full stack software engineering background. 

Last but not least: People 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. 

What you will do:

• Work on fast-paced, collaborative, autonomous, agile teams to build and enhance a growing software platform together

• Responsible for end to end feature releases and platform enhancements 

• Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions

• 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

• Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency

• Contribute to a culture committed to testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage

• Actively participate in ensuring Cohere maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security

• Foster a community of mentorship for junior engineers on your team

What we are looking for:

• You have experience working on software development teams, building and deploying data pipelines and infrastructure. 

• You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standards

• 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

Your background & education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development lifecycle, required

• Prior hands-on experience building data services and APIs in Python, required

• Experience leading data modeling and storage design using different database technologies, required

• Hands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using MongoDB, Elastic-search, or Kafka, at least one required

• Experience with data pipelines or applications using Python or Java

• Prior experience on modern technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, Dbt is a plus, but is not required.

• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required