Lead Software Engineer - Architecture
Company: Cohere Health
Location: San Diego
Posted on: December 31, 2025
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Job Description:
This is a unique opportunity to join a high caliber engineering
team that is growing quickly. As Lead Software Engineer,
Architecture, you will play a key role in shaping the architectural
direction of our healthcare technology platforms. You will be
responsible for designing and evolving system architecture across
core services, ensuring scalability, performance, and long-term
resilience. Your work will balance immediate delivery needs with
platform reusability, cloud native best practices, and compliance
in a highly regulated environment. What you’ll do: • Architectural
Leadership: Define and maintain the architectural blueprint for our
platforms, ensuring designs meet the needs of high-volume
healthcare integrations and can scale across multiple systems,
payors, and third party services. • Scalable Systems Design:
Establish architectural patterns and reusable frameworks that
reduce technical debt, minimize redundant development, and enable
integrations to scale securely and efficiently. • Cross-Functional
Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams to align
technical designs with business goals and ensure long term
adaptability. • Security & Compliance: Build architectures that are
HIPAA, FHIR, and HL7 compliant, embedding data security,
auditability, and privacy into design decisions. • Technical
Guidance: Provide architectural reviews, mentor engineers on design
trade offs, and champion best practices in performance, resiliency,
and cloud native development. What you’ll need: • 8 years in
software engineering with significant experience in architectural
design and system level thinking. • Proven expertise in
microservices development and AWS cloud infrastructure. Kafka for
event streaming is strongly preferred. Experience with Java Spring
is a plus. • Experience working with modern data platforms that
enable reliable, governed and analytics ready data. • Familiarity
with AI/ML Platforms, agentic frameworks, and evaluation methods
for integrating AI agents, model pipelines and architectural
design. • Understanding of healthcare integration standards (HIPAA,
FHIR, HL7) and secure architecture practices. • Track record of
leading design reviews, producing clear architectural
documentation, and mentoring teams on modern software architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
Keywords: Cohere Health, Mission Viejo , Lead Software Engineer - Architecture, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
