Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cohere Health develops healthcare technology that supports prior authorization and payer-provider decision-making. The Software Engineer II will independently design, implement, test, deploy, and support full-stack features while collaborating with product, QA, and engineering teams. The role also includes debugging production issues, improving platform reliability, conducting code reviews, and mentoring newer team members.
Responsibilities
- Own story-level work independently — decomposing stories into tasks, implementing across the full stack (Java/Groovy backend, React/TypeScript frontend, MongoDB, Kafka), and leading release and support for your changes
- Design and ship features with strong quality discipline — writing appropriate tests, producing accurate estimates, and confirming priorities with your team
- Write short design notes for non-trivial work, articulating tradeoffs between approaches before committing to implementation
- Debug and resolve production issues in your owned area, using logs, metrics, and traces to identify root causes and ship fixes
- Identify and ship small platform or process enhancements that improve developer experience, code quality, or operational reliability
- Provide high-signal code reviews that catch issues, suggest improvements, and help teammates grow
- Support onboarding of new team members and mentor interns or new hires on bounded, well-scoped tasks
- Coordinate across tasks and dependencies within your stories — working with PM, QA, and adjacent engineers to resolve blockers and close issues through resolution
Skills
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience demonstrating independent delivery and increasing ownership
- Backend development experience using Java or Groovy, including writing and maintaining production services
- Experience building web applications with React, JavaScript, and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with databases (MongoDB or similar NoSQL stores preferred), including basic schema design and query writing
- Demonstrated ability to independently own story-sized work — decomposing into tasks, implementing, testing, and shipping without daily direction
- Familiarity with event-driven systems or messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) at a working level
- Proficiency with version control (Git), automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to produce accurate effort estimates and communicate status, risks, and blockers proactively
- Strong code review skills — gives and receives feedback constructively
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel
- 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
- Experience in healthcare or life sciences industry
- Hands-on experience with test frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, or Jest
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and basic infrastructure concepts
- Experience supporting production systems (incident response, monitoring)
- Experience writing design documents or technical specs for feature work
- Familiarity with feature flag systems and progressive rollout strategies
Benefits
- Fully remote opportunity
- 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
- Bonus
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