Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Full-Stack Software Engineer role sits at a core SaaS junction: the product surface where developers self-serve an API and where usage translates into authentication, billing, payments, and deployment management. In an AI-infrastructure context, those systems become part of the “product” as much as the model itself, shaping how customers trial, trust, and operationalise capabilities through a Playground and platform controls.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps closely to durable platform primitives—identity, monetisation mechanics, and lifecycle workflows—that recur across API-first businesses. Experience shipping across backend and frontend while handling stringent deployment constraints also builds judgement around reliability, security, and operating in environments where standard libraries or tooling may not be viable.
The role is best suited to engineers who enjoy owning end-to-end product-platform slices rather than staying within a single service boundary. It will appeal to professionals who like translating complex infrastructure into clear customer-facing experiences, and who are comfortable navigating trade-offs between developer ergonomics, privacy requirements, and operational discipline in a production SaaS setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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?
Cohere customers self-serve our API without any intervention. This team unlocks the complex technology we build for customers to understand, trust, and pay for.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Improve the platform’s auth, billing, and payment systems
Add new features to the interactive Playground where customers can try our models
Implement new platform features for managing deployments
Write and ship minimal code that runs in low-resource environments, and has highly stringent deployment mechanisms
As security and privacy are paramount, you will sometimes need to reinvent the wheel, and won’t be able to use the most popular libraries or tooling
You may be a good fit if:
You have 5+ years of experience writing clean backend code. Our stack includes: Golang and React.
You’ve built payment systems and have experience with subscription or usage-based SaaS, and/or products with a freemium model.
You have strong coding abilities and are comfortable working across the stack. You’re able to read and understand, and even fix issues outside of the main code base.
You’ve worked in both large enterprises and startups.
You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target.
If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply!
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.
Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these 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 up to 6 months
🎨 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, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
✈️ 6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)
