Lead Software Engineer

Cohere Health, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Travel opportunities (~5%)

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Employee Assistance Program

401K with company match

Flexible spending and health savings

Up to 14 weeks parental leave

Annual bonus

Job summary

Cohere Health, Inc. is seeking a Lead Engineer for a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.

You will lead end-to-end feature releases on our cloud platform, mentor junior engineers, design scalable data services and APIs, and collaborate with product and design to deliver high-quality healthcare software. This role emphasizes security, testing, and a culture of quality, with hands-on work across the stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8–10 years of experience in software development lifecycle.
• Experience building applications using React and TypeScript or another modern web framework.
• Fluency in Java.

Responsibilities

• Actively support the technical design process and contribute to data-driven decisions.
• Contribute to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of cloud platform and web applications.
• Support all parts of the platform from the database to the frontend.
• Continuously discover and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Improve testing, quality, and coverage; promote best practices.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Java

APIs

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Kafka

Groovy

Micronaut

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

DataDog

Kafka

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Lead Engineer

Remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events.

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Engineering department. In this role, you will work on a fast-paced, collaborative, agile team to build and enhance a growing software platform. You’ll have technical responsibility for end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements delivered by the team. This is an opportunity to define the customer-configurability capabilities of the Cohere platform.

What you’ll do:

• 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 you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 8 - 10 years of experience in software development lifecycle
• Experience building applications using React and TypeScript or another modern web framework
• Fluency in Java
• Experience designing and implementing scalable data services and APIs
• Hands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DataDog or Kafka, at least one
• Experience architecting and deploying software to modern cloud infrastructure using AWS and Terraform or CloudFormation
• 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
• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required
• Experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or Cucumber is a plus
• Experience leveraging Groovy and Micronaut is a plus

Benefits

Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel.

Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.

401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account.

Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

Salary range for this position is $155,000 to $175,000 annually as part of a total benefits package that includes health insurance, 401k, and bonus.

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.