Staff Software Engineer - Payment Solutions

coherehealth; United States; Remote; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Bonus

Medical, dental, vision, life & short/

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Flexible time off

company holidays

Paid parental leave

Pet insurance

Job summary

coherehealth is seeking a staff-level engineer on a payment solutions team building AI-powered healthcare products that support payment integrity workflows across providers, payers, and delegated entities. This remote-first role leads an autonomous agile team designing highly available, cloud-native SaaS platforms at the intersection of healthcare interoperability and distributed systems.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and own production code, releases, and on-call support while

Qualifications

• 12 or more years in software development with progression into complex cloud-native system design.
• Deep expertise in authentication and authorization frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing.
• Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills.
• Full-stack experience with modern languages, event-driven systems, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
• Background designing data systems and pipelines for analytical and AI workloads, with solid data modeling fundamentals.
• Track record shaping engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and communicating strategy to mixed audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across architecture and system design while mentoring engineers on a SaaS platform.
• Lead development of AI-powered applications and platforms that are highly configurable and optimized for performance.
• Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across diverse healthcare sources.
• Design, review, and own production code while leading releases, deployments, and on-call support.
• Drive strategy for non-functional requirements including observability, instrumentation, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with machine learning, data science, product, and architecture peers to align technical work with business needs.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

Job description

Role overview

A staff-level engineering role on a payment solutions team building AI-powered healthcare products that support payment integrity workflows across providers, payers, and delegated entities. The position leads an autonomous agile team designing highly available, cloud-native SaaS platforms that operate at the intersection of healthcare interoperability and modern distributed systems. It is remote-first with occasional travel to Boston for onboarding and team events.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across architecture and system design while mentoring engineers on a SaaS platform


• Lead development of AI-powered applications and platforms that are highly configurable and optimized for performance


• Design data and retrieval architectures that give AI agents the right context across diverse healthcare sources


• Design, review, and own production code while leading releases, deployments, and on-call support


• Drive strategy for non-functional requirements including observability, instrumentation, performance, and security


• Collaborate with machine learning, data science, product, and architecture peers to align technical work with business needs

Requirements

• 12 or more years in software development with progression into complex cloud-native system design


• Deep expertise in authentication and authorization frameworks, secure API design, access control, and automated testing


• Strong system design, observability, and production operations skills


• Full-stack experience with modern languages, event-driven systems, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code


• Background designing data systems and pipelines for analytical and AI workloads, with solid data modeling fundamentals


• Track record shaping engineering standards, mentoring engineers, and communicating strategy to mixed audiences

Nice to have

• Experience with AI architectures such as multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation frameworks


• Background in healthcare technology, health plans, payment integrity, or healthcare interoperability standards


• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote with approximately 5 percent travel for onboarding and team events


• Salary range of $185,000 to $225,000 annually, plus health insurance, 401(k) with company match, and bonus


• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage plus an employee assistance program


• Flexible spending and health savings accounts, flexible time off, and company holidays


• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave and pet insurance