Sr. Software Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

Cohere Health is at the forefront of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to transform prior authorization, shifting from transaction-based processes to creating elevated care journeys. By integrating AI into healthcare decisioning, we aim to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and ultimately enhance patient care. This is a unique opportunity to join our rapidly growing Clinical Intelligence team, where you’ll work on building impactful healthcare technologies that streamline and optimize the prior authorization process using AI/ML and Advanced Rules Engines.

• What you’ll do:
• Contribute to the functional & technical roadmap for the team, working alongside cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact deterministic rules-based and AI-driven healthcare automation solutions.
• Actively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions
• Continuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency
• 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
• Drive daily engineering release once 2-4 times a month
• Perform production support duties 1-2 times a year.
• ISMS roles and responsibilities:
• Good knowledge of Information practices.
• Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
• Ensuring the team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
• Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.
• What we looking for:
• 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
• Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, software engineering, or equivalent experience in the field.
• Minimum of 6 - 8 years of full time experience in software development lifecycle, required Proficiency with Java/Groovy or Python
• Experience building applications using React and Javascript. TypeScript is a plus
• Familiarity with cloud development AWS/Azure
• Hands on experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or Cucumber is a plus, but not required
• Experience using relational (MySql, Postgres) and NoSQL (Dynamo, Elastic, Mongo) datastores along with data access patterns and strategies.
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of ownership for the entire SDLC, including designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting production services in a fast-paced environment.
• Be self-starter requiring minimal direction with ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements
• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences is a plus, but is not required
• Nice-to-haves
• Integrating AI/LLM-based systems into product workflows.
• Open source or community projects.
• Designing or implementing agent based systems or AI products involving autonomous or task-driven agents.

Ability To Commute/relocate

Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

Connect with Talent Acquisition

Meet with the Hiring Manager

Behavioral Interview(s)

Case Study

Interview with Senior Leadership *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 expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

• Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.
• 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.