Backend Software Engineer, Payments

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 Backend Software Engineer, you will: 

• Improve the platform’s auth, billing, and payment systems

• 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:

• You’ve built payment systems and dunning flows, and have experience with subsription or usage based SaaS, and/or products with a freemium model.

• You have 8+ years of experience writing clean backend code. Our stack includes: Golang, and Python.

• 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! If you want to work really hard on a glorious mission with teammates that want the same thing, 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.

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 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.