Remote Staff Software Engineer - AI Payment Solutions

Cohere Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K with match

Parental leave 14 weeks

Flexible spending account

Job summary

Cohere Health is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payment Solutions team. This remote-first role involves designing, developing, and scaling AI-powered healthcare payment integrity platforms.

You will lead a fast-paced, autonomous team, shape system design, and own production-grade code while ensuring security and compliance. You will collaborate across ML/DS, product, and architecture teams to deliver scalable SaaS solutions, with 12+ years of experience and a background in

Qualifications

• 12+ years in the software development lifecycle with progression to complex cloud-native system design
• Expertise in auth/authz frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing
• Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills
• Fullstack expertise in modern languages, event-driven systems, and CI/CD; IaC a plus
• 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 a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across architecture, system design, and mentorship of junior engineers
• Lead development and enhancement of Cohere’s AI-powered applications and platforms for high performance
• Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across healthcare sources
• Design, review, and own high-quality production code and drive releases and deployments
• Drive non-functional requirements including observability, instrumentation, performance, security and privacy compliance
• Collaborate with ML/DS, product teams, and architects to meet business needs
• Contribute to sprint planning, execution, and retrospectives to improve velocity

Skills

System design

Auth/Authorization

Fullstack

CI/CD

Data architectures

Mentoring

Security & privacy

Healthcare domain

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Observability tools

Job description

Cohere Health is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payment Solutions team. This remote-first role involves designing, developing, and scaling AI-powered healthcare payment integrity platforms.

You will lead a fast-paced, autonomous team, shape system design, and own production-grade code while ensuring security and compliance. You will collaborate across ML/DS, product, and architecture teams to deliver scalable SaaS solutions, with 12+ years of experience and a background in