Company Overview:
Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, 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 awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.
Opportunity Overview:
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.
Serve as team lead for a high-caliber software engineering team, providing technical leadership throughout the design and delivery process, motivating engineers to develop simple, pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
What you will do:
- Lead a fast-paced, autonomous, agile team of software engineers to build and enhance a
growing software platform. - Lead the data platform team in scaling our capabilities.
- Ensure the team follows and builds upon software engineering best practices, including
testing, quality and security. - Direct daily operations of software engineering team, assigning projects, analyzing
workflow and establishing priorities. - Enable the team to further its impact by improving its means of delivery and working
closely with the data, product, and growth organizations to further the value we bring to
our customers. - Coordinate and consult with data, product and growth teams to ensure product and client
needs are met. - Help hire new talent - help with sourcing and selling candidates as well as vetting them
for the team. - Create transparency into delivery health through meaningful sprint and business metrics
with management.
Your background & requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or a closely-related IT field plus 5 years’ experience in progressively responsible software engineering role.
Must have the following experience (can be gained concurrently with above experience):
4 years’ experience in:
- Building applications and APIs using Python or Java.
- Leading the development of data products.
- Building highly scalable ETL pipelines using Spark and SQL.
- Developing business intelligence solutions using tools like Tableau or PowerBI.
- Building a data platform using AWS (S3, Glue), Kafka, Airflow, dbt, and EMR.
- Deploying CI/CD, such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
3 years’ experience in building solutions in healthcare using HL7, FHIR, and CCDA standards.
2 years’ experience in:
- Supporting machine learning workloads, using AWS Sagemaker.
- Building infrastructure as code using Terraform.
This position is Hybrid, requiring 2 days/week working from our Boston, MA office.
We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!
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.
The salary for this position is $223,600 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.
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Cohere Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies indicate PTO of about 23 days per year plus 10 company holidays, with wellness and floating holidays also highlighted on some listings. This breadth is emphasized across official materials and third‑party profiles.
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Parental & Family Support — Offerings include up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave in the U.S., alongside adoption and fertility support. These provisions are consistently presented as part of a people‑first policy set.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage spans medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, plus EAP and mental‑health benefits; transgender health care benefits are also called out. Plan summaries on the benefits portal indicate established carrier options and clear documentation.
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What We Do
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs. Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.
Why Work With Us
Cohere Health brings together a community of healthcare and technology team members, passionate about changing the challenging parts of healthcare. If you enjoy solving challenging problems and learning about healthcare, then Cohere Health is a great career choice.
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Employees work remotely.
Cohere employees work from 45 different states throughout the US - Cohere hosts retreats at our headquarters in Boston. ZignaAI, a Cohere Health Company, employees based in Hyderabad, India, work in-office 5 days a week.
