Cohere is hiring a
Software Engineering Tech Lead

Summary

Join us on our mission to scale intelligence and shape the future! As a Software Engineering Tech Lead, you will improve the local development experience for engineers, design and implement changes to the monorepo, and mentor and grow engineering colleagues. We value diversity and inclusivity, and offer a range of perks and benefits.

Requirements

• Have been a tech lead, or a hands-on engineering manager
• Have 3-5 years of experience writing clean backend code. We primarily use Go, Python, and TypeScript, with infrastructure running in multiple cloud providers
• Have experience with build systems (such as Bazel), local Kubernetes development frameworks (such as Telepresence, k3d, Tilt), and CI/CD pipelines (such as GitHub Actions)
• Have excellent communication skills and believe that documentation is a great way to get feedback and discuss technical implementations and designs

Responsibilities

• Improve the local development experience for our engineers, focusing on developer velocity and happiness
• Design and implement changes to how our monorepo is structured to reduce time to merge
• Implement strategies to help developers maintain and improve their tests, with the goal of high test coverage
• Spend 75% of your time actively contributing to code development and architecture, and 25% mentoring and managing a small team
• Mentor and grow your engineering colleagues of all levels through direct pairing sessions, architectural designs, documentation and talks

Benefits

• 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