Lead Software Engineer

Role Description 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 Lead Engineer to join our Engineering department. In this role, you will work on a fast-paced, collaborative, agile team to build and enhance a growing software platform. You’ll have technical responsibility for end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements delivered by the team. This is an opportunity to define the customer-configurability capabilities of the Cohere platform. What you’ll do: Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions Contribute heavily to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of our cloud platform and web applications Support all parts of our platform from the database to the frontend Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency Contribute to a culture committed to testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage Actively participate in ensuring Cohere maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security Foster a community of mentorship for junior engineers on your team Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experience Minimum of 8 - 10 years of experience in software development lifecycle Experience building applications using React and TypeScript or another modern web framework Fluency in Java Experience designing and implementing scalable data services and APIs Hands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DataDog or Kafka, at least one Experience architecting and deploying software to modern cloud infrastructure using AWS and Terraform or CloudFormation You have experience working on software development teams, building and deploying full stack web applications You are passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standards You can collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience You have experience with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CD You are a team player and are interested in working at a fast-paced startup environment Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required Experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or Cucumber is a plus Experience leveraging Groovy and Micronaut is a plus Benefits 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 Interview Process Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening Meet your Hiring Manager! Design Interview(s) Cross-Functional Interview