Staff Platform Engineer

Cohere Health; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced software engineer to lead the development of scalable data and AI platforms. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enhance the platform's features and ensure compliance with industry standards. The ideal candidate has over 9 years of experience in software development and a strong background in AI systems. This position requires a commitment to high-quality code and mentoring junior team members.

Qualifications

• 9+ years in the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in designing and building scalable data and AI platforms.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and enhancement of data and AI platforms.
• Ensure platform components comply with healthcare security and privacy regulations.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Scalable data platforms

AI systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Data infrastructure design

CI/CD practices

Version control

Performance monitoring

Job description

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 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 9+ years in the software development lifecycle, with significant experience building and maintaining scalable data and AI platforms.
• 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.
• Proven expertise in designing and operating large‑scale data infrastructure, ideally in cloud‑based, distributed environments.
• 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.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry standards and the ability to ensure that integrations comply with these regulations while being optimized for performance and scalability.
• Commitment to high‑quality code, with experience in version control, unit testing, CI/CD practices, and performance monitoring.
• Ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues, ensuring high availability, minimal downtime, and a streamlined integration experience for users.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Nacharam, Hyderabad, Telangana: reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred). we will be opening a new office in the HITEC City area in early 2026

Interview Process:

• Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
• Meet your Hiring Manager!
• Technical Discussion
• Cross Functional Collaboration Interview

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

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.