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:
Build impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack. Build and maintain data services and integrations that support Cohere Health’s teams to continuously evolve product offerings and clinical intelligence. Duties include:
- Work on fast-paced, autonomous, software development agile teams to build and enhance a growing software platform.
- Support interoperability initiative that extends the reach of Cohere’s products and services in the marketplace.
- Provide technical leadership throughout the technical design and sprint process.
- Own end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements.
- Actively participate in the technical design process, bring expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions.
- Contribute to developing a culture of testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting industry leading practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage.
- Actively participate in ensuring Cohere maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security within their software development and design processes.
- Assist in developing technical documentation to facilitate knowledge transfers within department and organization.
- Run sprint rituals and sprint planning when required, while engaging in the agile development process, including the definition, design, and management of product backlog.
- Mentor junior software engineers on the team.
Requirements:
Masters degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or closely related field and three (3) years of experience in the software development cycle, or in the alternative, a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or closely related field and five (5) years of experience in the software development cycle.
The above must include three (3) years of experience with:
- Designing and architecting software systems using: lucidchart, draw.io, or figma.
- Building data services and APIs using Java (Spring).
- Leading data modeling, storage design, building, and maintaining services using database technologies (including: NoSQL, SQL, and Object Storage) and observability platforms including AWS Cloudwatch.
- Developing CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or Github Actions.
This position is remote and can be performed from any location within the United States.
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 $172,744 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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What We Do
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately.
Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes.
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.
