Staff Software Engineer
Staff Software Engineer at Cohere Health builds and scales healthcare AI platforms in Python/Java/TypeScript, ensuring compliance and mentoring teams to deliver secure, high-performance systems for prior authorization and payment integrity.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 13+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a staff/principal/lead role
- Expertise in designing and scaling distributed, cloud-native applications
- Strong background in one or more modern languages: Python, Java, TypeScript/React
- Proven track record of driving system architecture, technical strategy, and execution
- Experience working in healthcare technology or other regulated environments, strongly preferred
- Demonstrated success in mentoring and growing engineering talent
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
Full description
Opportunity Overview:
This is a unique opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is experiencing rapid growth. You’ll play a key role in building impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, with a focus on our core data and AI platforms. Your work will focus on enhancing the platform's key features, while also balancing scalability, reusability, and performance.
As a Staff Engineer on the Application Engineering team, you’ll serve as a senior technical leader - responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, scalable software systems that power Cohere Health’s core platform. You’ll act as a multiplier, elevating the technical bar for the team, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, data, and clinical teams to deliver solutions that meet compliance, quality, and performance standards.
This role is ideal for engineers who thrive on solving complex problems in healthcare, have deep expertise in building distributed systems, and want to influence architecture and engineering practices at scale.
What you’ll do:
- Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Define and drive the architecture of large-scale, distributed application systems across the Cohere platform.
- Ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and compliant with NCQA, CMS, and payer requirements.
- Champion engineering best practices in CI/CD, testing, release management, and observability.
- Hands-On Engineering
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, primarily in modern frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/React, Java/Kotlin).
- Lead the development of core features and APIs that directly impact providers, payers, and patients.
- Partner with DevOps and Data teams to ensure seamless integration, scalability, and operational readiness.
- Quality & Compliance Focus
- Embed automated testing, monitoring, and release safeguards into the development lifecycle.
- Proactively address compliance and audit-readiness requirements in application design.
- Collaborate with Quality, Security, and Compliance stakeholders to close CAP issues and maintain high delivery standards.
- Mentorship & Influence
- Mentor engineers across the team, guiding them on technical design, code quality, and system thinking.
- Lead design reviews, technical deep-dives, and incident retrospectives to foster continuous improvement.
- Act as a thought leader in scaling engineering practices across multiple teams.