Associate Software Engineer

Cohere Health — Hyderabad, Telangana

₹7–15 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · 0–3 yrs exp · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite

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Quick answer: An onsite Hyderabad role on the rules-and-AI engine behind US prior authorization, where 0 to 3 years still means owning features from database to frontend, running releases and doing production support. Java or Python gets you in; React and one cloud you have actually deployed to are the parts worth being able to talk about.

From Cohere Health's job posting

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.

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HireSetu's note

Ownership is the real filter

This listing asks for two things at once. The stack is wide: work spans the database up through APIs to React screens, and you're expected to design, build, test, deploy and then support what you shipped. On top of that sit the operational duties, driving a release two to four times a month and production support one to two times a year.

For someone with 0 to 3 years, that combination is the whole job. Coursework and a single-service internship won't give you much to say about deployments or a live incident, so dig out the closest thing you have: a side project you hosted, a bug chased after something went live, a pipeline you set up yourself.

Rules engines before LLMs

The platform decides prior authorization requests automatically, and this team builds both the deterministic rules-based automation and the AI-driven pieces. That split is worth understanding before you talk about your own work. A rules engine evaluates explicit conditions and returns a decision, every time, while an ML model returns a probability. Healthcare decisioning leans hard on the first.

Java or Python at a working level is the requirement. React and JavaScript appear at exposure level, so a project with real components, state and API calls is enough to discuss. Revising SQL joins and indexing, one NoSQL model and when you'd pick it over a table, unit testing, and a CI/CD pipeline you have run yourself covers most of the ground.

Questions to put to them

The posting is onsite in Hyderabad and the platform serves US health plans, so ask how the team handles timezone overlap with product and clinical counterparts, and what that does to the working day.

Ask which stack the Hyderabad team actually owns, Java or Python, and which datastores are in use, since MySQL, Postgres, Dynamo, Elastic and Mongo are all named. Production support deserves unpacking: on-call rotas, hours, and whether the monthly releases are yours to run end to end. The nice-to-haves are all AI-shaped, LLM integration and agent-based systems, which tells you where this team's work is heading.

Drafted with AI from Cohere Health's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.

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