Software Engineer I

Opportunity Overview: 

We are seeking a Software Engineer I to join our Integrations team. In this role, you will be designing, developing, testing, and supporting healthcare integration systems that connect Cohere Health with providers, payers, delegated entities, and third-party platforms. You'll work as part of a fast-paced, autonomous, agile team of software engineers building and operating a growing enterprise integration platform. This is an opportunity to develop your technical expertise at the intersection of healthcare interoperability, APIs, and modern distributed systems.

What you’ll do:

• Software Development: Design, develop, test, and maintain reliable and scalable services that support critical business workflows and enterprise integrations.
• Integration Solutions: Develop and maintain secure integrations with internal and external platforms, partners, and third-party systems.
• API Development: Build and support APIs and work with external APIs, data exchange protocols, and common integration patterns.
• Distributed Systems: Work with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, and distributed systems to support reliable and scalable processing.
• Cloud & Automation: Contribute to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and software delivery practices.
• Quality Engineering: Develop automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests and contribute to improving the team's testing frameworks and practices.
• Operational Excellence: Use monitoring, logging, metrics, and observability tools to troubleshoot issues and improve system reliability and performance.
• Production Support: Troubleshoot and resolve integration and production issues and participate in on-call and operational support activities as needed.
• Security: Implement secure integrations using authentication, authorization, access control, and API security best practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, operations, QA, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to deliver integration solutions.
• Agile Delivery: Participate in technical discussions, planning, backlog refinement, code reviews, and delivery activities within an agile development environment.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to technical documentation and share knowledge and best practices across the team.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve code quality, system reliability, engineering processes, and operational efficiency.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field; or equivalent experience.
• 1-2 years of experience in software development building and supporting applications or services.
• Experience with at least one modern programming language such as Java, Python, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, and common integration patterns.
• Experience writing unit and/or integration tests.
• Familiarity with relational and/or non-relational databases and data modeling.
• Understanding of software development practices, version control, and CI/CD.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with engineers and cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
• Experience building and supporting integrations with external APIs or third-party systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous messaging, or distributed systems.
• Experience with automated integration or end-to-end testing frameworks.
• Experience with cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, or CI/CD pipeline design.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience in healthcare technology, health plan operations, or prior authorization systems.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR or other healthcare data exchange protocols.

Pay & Perks:

💻 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 

🏝️ Flex Time Off + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave 

🐶 Pet insurance  

The salary range for this position is $94,000 to $110,000 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. 

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Technical Interview
5. Team Interviews

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

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’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. 

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, 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.

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.

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