Cohere Health
Healthcare
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,ClientImplementations
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“Senior Software Engineer, Client Implementations at Cohere Health. Skills: Full stack development, Client implementations, Healthcare technology. Own epic-level efforts end-to-end. Design services and applications”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver systems; Ship high-quality software; Impact patient access to care; Inform team direction; Align cross-functional stakeholders; Deliver high-quality experiences; Balance quality, delivery timelines, operational constraints
Industry & Context.
Distributed systems problems; Performance bottlenecks; Reliability gaps; Data consistency issues; Technical debt
Travel to Boston, MA, Occasional in-person meetings, Occasional company events
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years software engineering, Backend development Java, Backend development Groovy, Modern web applications React, Modern web applications JavaScript, Modern web applications TypeScript, NoSQL data stores experience, Schema design experience, Query optimization experience, Own and deliver epic-sized efforts, Decomposing work into milestones, Leading execution, Shipping with design-doc quality, Build systems integrate external partners, Build systems integrate upstream data sources, APIs experience, Event-driven workflows experience, Message-driven workflows experience, Proficiency modern development practices, Version control Git, Automated testing proficiency, CI/CD pipelines proficiency, Collaboration skills, Work effectively across team boundaries, Proven ability mentor engineers, Elevate team quality, Bachelor's degree computer science, Bachelor's degree software engineering, Bachelor's degree equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
Healthcare or life sciences industry experience, Healthcare interoperability standards experience, FHIR experience, HL7 experience, Multi-tenant systems experience, Client-specific configurations experience, API decomposition experience, Monolith-to-services migration patterns experience, Test frameworks experience, Cypress experience, Playwright experience, JUnit experience, Jest experience, Cloud platforms experience, AWS experience, Distributed systems at scale experience
What You'll Do.
Own epic-level efforts end-to-end
Design services and applications
Build services and applications
Maintain services and applications
Identify systemic technical risks
Evaluate technical approaches
Foster culture of ownership
Foster culture of learning
Foster culture of technical excellence
Lead technical design discussions
Align cross-functional stakeholders
Ensure launch readiness
Coordinate across teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product teams; Partner with design teams; Partner with clinical teams; Partner with platform teams; Cross-functional teams; Across team boundaries
Communication Scope
Design discussions; Written tradeoffs
Process & Methodology
Milestone decomposition, Rollout strategy, Rollback plans
Full Job Description
Opportunity Overview: This is a remote-first role that may require travel to Boston, MA for new hire onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings and company events. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will build and operate mission-critical healthcare technology that powers prior authorization for health plans covering 15+ million members. You'll work across the full stack — backend services, event-driven pipelines, and provider-facing web applications — to deliver systems that healthcare practitioners and clinical operations teams depend on daily. You'll partner closely with product, design, clinical, and platform teams to ship high-quality software in a complex, multi-tenant healthcare environment. This is an opportunity to solve distributed systems problems where engineering quality directly impacts patient access to care. What you’ll do: Own epic-level efforts end-to-end — from technical design and milestone decomposition through implementation, testing, and production deployment Design, build, and maintain services and applications across the full stack: backend (Java, Groovy/Grails), frontend (React, TypeScript), data (MongoDB), and event-driven messaging (Kafka) Proactively identify systemic technical risks including performance bottlenecks, reliability gaps, data consistency issues, and accumulated technical debt — proposing and executing solutions Evaluate technical approaches through design docs, pilots, and experiments — documenting decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes to inform team direction Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and pairing — fostering a culture of ownership, learning, and technical excellence Lead technical design discussions, bringing data-driven analysis and written tradeoffs to resolve ambiguity and align cross-functional stakeholders Ensure launch readiness for your epics — comprehensive testing, rollout strategy, monitoring, and rollback plans — coordin
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