Associate Software Engineer

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.

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