Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Full-Stack Engineer role sits squarely in a modern SaaS pattern: building an enterprise-facing platform where product value depends on secure, reliable delivery of AI capabilities. Work on an AI workspace product also reflects a broader shift in SaaS from standalone applications to embedded assistants and agent-like workflows that must integrate with existing business systems and sensitive data.
From a career standpoint, the role offers experience that tends to compound across SaaS companies: shipping end-to-end product features, making pragmatic architecture choices, and operating within constraints that come with enterprise deployment. The emphasis on minimal, performant code and stringent deployment mechanisms maps closely to the realities of scaling SaaS in regulated or security-conscious environments. Collaboration with researchers to productionize new techniques also builds a useful bridge between experimentation and maintainable product engineering.
This position is best suited to engineers who like owning outcomes across the stack and treating UX, security, and delivery as first-class concerns. It will fit someone comfortable balancing product judgment with implementation detail, and who prefers work where trade-offs are explicit and measured rather than abstracted away.
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?
Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems.
We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that.
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. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft.
We are a global technology company co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with key offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris. Join us!
About North:
North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed to revolutionize the way enterprises utilize AI. It offers a secure and customizable environment, allowing companies to deploy AI while maintaining control over sensitive data. North integrates seamlessly with existing workflows, providing a trusted platform that connects AI agents with workplace tools and applications.
In this role, you will:
Build and ship features for North, our AI workspace platform
Develop autonomous agents that talk to sensitive enterprise data
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 re-invent the wheel, and won’t be able to use the most popular libraries or tooling
Collaborate with researchers to productionize state-of-the-art models and techniques
You may be a good fit if:
Have shipped (lots of) fullstack code (Python and React) in production
You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target
You have strong coding abilities and are comfortable working across the stack.
You have built and deployed extremely performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications to millions of users.
You think like a product owner, not just an engineer — you ask "should we build this?" before "how do we build this?"
You have strong opinions on what makes a great user experience and aren't afraid to push back on designs or specs that don't serve the user
You've owned features end-to-end: from understanding the user problem, to shipping, to measuring impact
Bonus: You love art and have an eye for design and a creative mindset - A plus, if you have a portfolio, GitHub or other showcases of your projects
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.
We may use AI-enabled tools to screen and assess applicants against the criteria for this position. This helps our recruiters identify potentially qualified candidates, but it doesn't limit the applications our recruiters may review or consider.
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
A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
Annual enrichment benefits:
Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
How and Where We Work:
Cohere is remote-friendly. We have offices in Toronto, San Francisco, New York City, London, Paris, Montreal, and more coming soon.
For those in the office: a daily lunch program, plenty of snacks, and regular community and social events.
For those not near an office: a co-working benefit so you can work alongside others in your city.
Everyone receives a $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.
