Software Engineering Tech Lead

Who are we?

Our mission is to scale intelligence to serve humanity. We’re training and deploying frontier models for developers and enterprises who are building AI systems to power magical experiences like content generation, semantic search, RAG, and agents. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI.

We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. We like to work hard and move fast to do what’s best for our customers.

Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are passionate about their craft. Each person is one of the best in the world at what they do. We believe that a diverse range of perspectives is a requirement for building great products.

Join us on our mission and shape the future!

Why this role?

This team crafts the digital face of Cohere, providing clear and engaging content that showcases our technology. They build and maintain go-to resources for anyone wanting to understand or build with Cohere products.

Please Note: We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York, and London. We embrace a remote-friendly environment, and as part of this approach, we strategically distribute teams based on interests, expertise, and time zones to promote collaboration and flexibility. This team is concentrated in EST and PST time zones.

As a Software Engineering Tech Lead on this team, you will:

• Ship delightful experiences for our user-facing products, meticulously crafting code for browsers.
• Own and build robust services-oriented web experiences.
• Improve our data analytics pipelines, measure SEO effectiveness, and help marketing automate lead gen.
• Manage a small but enthusiastic team of software engineers
• Mentor and grow your engineering colleagues of all levels through direct pairing sessions, architectural designs, documentation and talks
• Identify and remove roadblocks that are blocking your team to increase engineering velocity and build resilient systems

You may be a good fit if:

• You’ve shipped fast and snappy web apps loved by many users
• You’re familiar with SEO and data analytics
• You have 8+ years of experience writing clean backend code. Our stack includes: Typescript, next.js, react, Golang, and Python. You care about bringing value to our users - It’s not just about chasing the latest web API or JS framework. You understand the balance between craft and speed
• You have been a tech lead, or a hands-on engineering manager, and you’re ok wearing the product manager hat from time to time
• You have excellent communication skills and believe that documentation are a great way to get feedback and discuss technical implementations and designs. You have the ability to take complex needs and goals and develop easy to understand explanations for all audiences to understand
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and motivation to scale a company or you’ve worked as a founding engineering

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you consider yourself a thoughtful worker, a lifelong learner, and a kind and playful team member, Cohere is the place for you.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please submit an Accommodations Request Form, and we will work together to meet your needs.

Our Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.