Software Engineering Tech Lead, Developer Experience

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 is responsible for designing and building the best experience for internal engineering at Cohere. Their mission is to ensure developers are empowered to deliver code quickly, and minimize development pain. You will play a vital role in enhancing our development processes and improving Cohere’s developer velocity.

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 the EST timezone.

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

• 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

You may be a good fit if:

• You have been a tech lead, or a hands-on engineering manager
• You have 3-5 years of experience writing clean backend code. We primarily use Go, Python, and TypeScript, with infrastructure running in multiple cloud providers
• You 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)
• You have excellent communication skills and believe that documentation is a great way to get feedback and discuss technical implementations and designs
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and motivation to help scale a company

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.