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