Opportunity Overview: We’re looking for an Associate Software Engineer who wants to be at the forefront of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to transform prior authorization, shifting from transaction-based processes to creating elevated care journeys with Cohere Health. 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 - Collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience What you’ll need: - Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, software engineering, or equivalent experience - 0 -3 years of full time experience in software development lifecycle - Proficiency with Java or Python - Exposure building applications using React and Javascript - Exposure with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CD - Familiarity with cloud development AWS/Azure - Familiarity 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 - Ability to be autonomous and be a self-starter with ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements 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 - Experience with Typescript About Cohere Health: Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its responsible AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members. With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we’ve further enhanced our platform by launching our Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution that operates in near real-time. By unifying pre-service authorization data with post-service claims validation, we’re creating a transparent healthcare ecosystem that reduces waste, improves payer-provider collaboration and patient outcomes, and ensures providers are paid promptly and accurately. Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry wide recognition. We’ve been named to the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024. Backed by leading investors such as Deerfield Management, Define Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Longitude Capital, and Polaris Partners, Cohere Health drives more transparent, streamlined healthcare processes, helping patients receive faster, more appropriate care and higher-quality outcomes. The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone. 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 ISMS roles and responsibilities - Fair understanding of Information Security practices. - Align to the organization policies and procedures. - Ensure to get updated with ISMS roles as assigned by the department/process heads.

Associate Software Engineer

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