# Software Engineer, Agents & Automations
**Company:** [Cohere](https://scaleengineer.com/companies/cohere)
Join Cohere's Agents & Automations team to build the core platform powering North, an enterprise AI workspace that enables businesses to create and deploy trusted AI-powered workflows. You'll work across the full stack (frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems) to design and ship features including workflow builders, execution engines, integrations, debugging tools, and observability systems that help customers automate and augment real business processes. This role demands strong product judgment, full-stack engineering capabilities, and the ability to ship reliable, high-impact software in a distributed, fast-paced environment.
**Role:** Full Stack Engineer
**Seniority:** Mid
**Locations:** London
**Remote:** yes
**Salary:** 150000–325000 USD
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## Responsibilities

- Design and build core platform capabilities: Design, architect, and implement core capabilities for North's Agents & Automations platform, including workflow builders, execution engines, integrations, debugging tools, and observability systems that power enterprise AI workflows.
- Develop end-to-end product features: Build product and platform features that enable users to create, run, debug, evaluate, and improve AI agents and automations, with a focus on transforming natural-language intent into working automations and adding richer analytics for deployed agents.
- Own features from conception to production: Take full ownership of features from technical design and implementation through testing, launch, and iterative improvements, ensuring reliable software that maintains a high bar for correctness and user impact.
- Work across the full technology stack: Collaborate across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure layers, making practical technical decisions that balance speed, quality, depth, and measurable user impact based on product needs.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, AI modelers, customer-facing teams, and fellow engineers to define outcomes, ship measurable improvements, and maintain clear communication in a distributed, asynchronous environment.
- Improve debugging and observability: Create better debugging tools for failed automation runs and design workflow primitives that make complex enterprise automations easier to build, test, and troubleshoot.
- Leverage AI in engineering practices: Use AI actively in your engineering work while staying intellectually engaged and fully accountable for the quality, reliability, and performance of systems you build and deploy.

## Requirements

### education

- {"name":"Computer Science or equivalent technical foundation","description":"Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience demonstrating strong technical fundamentals and ability to learn new technologies quickly."}

### technical

- {"name":"Production software development experience","description":"Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating production software used by real users or customers in distributed environments."}
- {"name":"Full-stack development capabilities","description":"Comfort working across backend, frontend, product, data, and infrastructure boundaries with the ability to make informed technical tradeoffs across the stack."}
- {"name":"Core programming fundamentals","description":"Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, system design, and architectural patterns that enable scalable, maintainable software."}
- {"name":"API and systems design","description":"Experience designing and implementing robust APIs, database schemas, and distributed systems that handle enterprise-scale workloads with reliability and performance."}
- {"name":"Testing and quality practices","description":"Commitment to writing testable code, establishing effective testing strategies, and maintaining high code quality standards while moving quickly in a startup environment."}
- {"name":"Debugging and observability skills","description":"Proficiency with debugging techniques, logging frameworks, monitoring tools, and observability practices to diagnose and resolve production issues efficiently."}

### experience

- {"name":"Backend development at scale","description":"Experience building and maintaining backend systems that serve real production traffic, with exposure to database optimization, caching strategies, and performance tuning."}
- {"name":"Frontend user experience development","description":"Practical experience developing user-facing features with attention to user experience details, accessibility, and the impact of engineering decisions on end-user workflows."}
- {"name":"Cross-functional product work","description":"History of collaborating effectively with product managers, designers, and other disciplines to ship features that solve real user problems and drive business impact."}
- {"name":"Autonomous problem-solving","description":"Track record of driving change independently with high agency, learning quickly from ambiguity, and executing without waiting for detailed specifications or perfect information."}

## Skills

### required

- {"name":"Python","description":"Production-level proficiency in Python for backend development, data processing, and building scalable service components within the North platform."}
- {"name":"TypeScript and React","description":"Strong ability to build interactive frontend interfaces using TypeScript and React, with experience in component architecture, state management, and modern frontend development practices."}
- {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Experience designing schemas, writing optimized queries, and managing PostgreSQL databases for production systems with consideration for performance and scalability."}
- {"name":"Product judgment and UX sensibility","description":"Ability to evaluate design decisions against user needs, advocate for user experience improvements, and understand how technical choices impact customer workflows."}
- {"name":"Asynchronous communication","description":"Strong communication skills for distributed teams, including clear documentation of decisions, architectural choices, and the ability to collaborate effectively across time zones."}

### preferred

- {"name":"Kubernetes and container orchestration","description":"Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container-based deployment strategies for scaling backend services and managing distributed systems."}
- {"name":"Workflow automation or orchestration","description":"Familiarity with workflow engines, job schedulers, or automation platforms that route requests, trigger approvals, or coordinate multi-step business processes."}
- {"name":"AI/ML systems integration","description":"Experience integrating machine learning models or AI services into production applications, understanding latency requirements, reliability concerns, and user experience implications."}
- {"name":"Enterprise software development","description":"Background building software for enterprise customers with understanding of compliance, data security, integration patterns, and the complexity of large-scale organizational adoption."}
- {"name":"Observability and monitoring","description":"Experience implementing comprehensive logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies to monitor production systems and enable rapid incident response."}
- {"name":"API design and REST/GraphQL","description":"Proficiency designing and implementing well-documented APIs that scale across internal and external consumers with versioning and backward compatibility considerations."}

## Tech stack

### tools

- {"name":"Kubernetes","description":"Container orchestration platform for deploying, scaling, and managing backend services and ensuring high availability in production."}
- {"name":"Docker","description":"Containerization technology for packaging applications, ensuring consistency across development and production environments."}
- {"name":"Git","description":"Version control system for collaborative development, code review, and maintaining codebase integrity across distributed teams."}

### others

- {"name":"AI workflow execution engines","description":"Systems for orchestrating multi-step AI agent workflows, managing tool integration, and handling asynchronous execution with reliability guarantees."}
- {"name":"Enterprise integrations","description":"Integration patterns for connecting with customer systems, managing authentication, and ensuring secure data flow across organizational boundaries."}
- {"name":"Monitoring and observability platforms","description":"Tools and practices for logging, metrics collection, tracing, and alerting to ensure production system health and enable rapid troubleshooting."}

### databases

- {"name":"PostgreSQL","description":"Primary relational database for storing workflow definitions, execution history, user data, and application state with ACID compliance requirements."}

### languages

- {"name":"Python","description":"Primary backend language for building services, data processing, and integrations within the Agents & Automations platform."}
- {"name":"TypeScript","description":"Frontend language for building type-safe, maintainable React applications and providing developer experience improvements through static type checking."}
- {"name":"SQL","description":"Essential for writing optimized database queries and managing PostgreSQL schema design for production systems."}

### frameworks

- {"name":"React","description":"Modern frontend framework for building interactive user interfaces, workflow builders, and dashboards for the North platform."}
- {"name":"FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks","description":"Backend framework for building REST APIs, handling enterprise API requirements, and integrating with third-party systems."}

## Benefits

### benefits

- {"name":"Weekly lunch stipend","description":"Receive $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency each week for lunch, regardless of remote or office location."}
- {"name":"Comprehensive health and dental coverage","description":"Full health and dental benefits with a separate dedicated budget for mental health support and wellness services."}
- {"name":"Retirement and pension matching","description":"RRSP matching for Canadian employees, 401(k) for US-based staff, and pension scheme options for UK employees."}
- {"name":"Generous parental leave","description":"100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, available for either parent, supporting work-life balance during key family moments."}
- {"name":"Annual enrichment benefits","description":"Budgets for arts and culture experiences, fitness and wellness activities, quality time initiatives, and workspace improvement credits to support personal growth."}
- {"name":"Education and learning stipend","description":"Annual budget for conferences, courses, coaching, and professional development to support continuous learning and skill advancement."}
- {"name":"Paid vacation time","description":"6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days annually), providing substantial time for rest, personal projects, and travel."}
- {"name":"Office travel and offsite budget","description":"Budget for traveling to other Cohere offices if you work remotely, plus participation in annual company offsites for team building and collaboration."}
- {"name":"Co-working benefits","description":"For remote employees not near an office, access to co-working spaces in your city to maintain community and professional work environment."}
- {"name":"Home office stipend","description":"One-time $500 stipend to set up your home workspace with quality equipment and ergonomic furniture."}
- {"name":"Office amenities","description":"For in-office employees: daily lunch program, abundant snacks, and regular community and social events to foster team culture."}

## Compensation

- **max:** 325000
- **min:** 150000
- **currency:** USD
- **stockOptions:** true

## Interview process

### steps

- {"name":"Initial screening and application review","description":"Your application is reviewed for alignment with core requirements including production software experience, full-stack capabilities, and demonstrated product judgment. Cohere uses AI-enabled screening tools to identify qualified candidates, but human recruiters review all submitted applications."}
- {"name":"Recruiter conversation","description":"Initial conversation with a Cohere recruiter to discuss your background, interest in the Agents & Automations platform, work experience with distributed systems, and alignment with the role's cross-functional nature."}
- {"name":"Technical screening or take-home assessment","description":"Technical evaluation to assess core programming fundamentals, system design thinking, and problem-solving approach. This may include a coding exercise, architectural design problem, or technical discussion."}
- {"name":"System design and architecture discussion","description":"In-depth conversation with engineering team members about designing scalable backend systems, frontend architecture for complex workflows, and the tradeoffs involved in building production software."}
- {"name":"Product and cross-functional collaboration interview","description":"Interview with product managers, designers, or other engineers to assess collaboration skills, product judgment, ability to gather requirements from non-technical stakeholders, and drive measurable improvements."}
- {"name":"Senior engineer or tech lead discussion","description":"Conversation with senior engineers or team leads about your approach to ownership, decision-making in ambiguous situations, learning velocity, and how you've driven technical initiatives in previous roles."}
- {"name":"Offer and negotiations","description":"Upon successful completion of interviews, Cohere extends an offer with competitive compensation based on location, experience level, and market research. Compensation discussions include base salary, equity/stock options, and benefits package."}

## Full 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 headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us!

## Why this role?

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.

The Agents & Automations team builds the platform inside North that lets customers create AI-powered workflows. Some of these workflows are structured automations, such as routing requests, keeping systems up-to-date, or triggering approvals. Others are more flexible agents that can gather context, use tools, make decisions, and take action across enterprise systems.

As an engineer on this team, you will help build the core platform that makes this possible: the workflow builder, execution engine, integrations, debugging tools, observability, evaluation systems, and feedback loops that help customers understand and improve what they deploy.

This is broad product engineering work across frontend, backend, and AI-powered systems. The goal is to ship reliable software that helps customers augment or automate real business workflows with agents and automations they can trust.

## As a Software Engineer, Agents & Automations, you will:

* Design, build, ship, and maintain core capabilities for North’s Agents & Automations platform.
* Build product and platform features that help users create, run, debug, evaluate, and improve agents and automations.
* Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, launch, and iteration.
* Work across the stack, from frontend product surfaces to backend systems, depending on what the product needs.
* Make practical technical decisions that balance speed, quality, depth, and user impact.
* Collaborate closely with product, design, modelling, customer-facing teams, and other engineers to define the right outcomes and ship measurable improvements.
* Use AI actively in your work, while staying intellectually engaged and accountable for the quality and reliability of what you ship.

Example problems you might work on include helping users turn natural-language intent into a working automation, adding richer analytics for deployed agents, creating better debugging tools for failed runs, or designing workflow primitives that make complex enterprise automations easier to build.

## You may be a good fit if:

* You have built, shipped, and operated production software used by real users or customers.
* You are comfortable working across backend, frontend, product, data, and infrastructure boundaries.
* You have strong product judgment, pay close attention to user experience details, and care deeply about whether your work helps the end user.
* You bring high agency: you act, tinker, learn quickly, and drive change without waiting for perfect instructions.
* You move quickly while maintaining a high bar for correctness, maintainability, and user impact.
* You communicate clearly in a distributed, asynchronous team, document important decisions, and collaborate well across functions
* You can advocate for a point of view, change your mind when the evidence changes, and commit once a decision is made.
* You are excited to use AI to do your best work, while staying accountable for the systems you build.

Our stack includes Python, TypeScript with React, Postgres, and Kubernetes. We care more about strong fundamentals, product judgment, agency, and learning ability than prior experience with every part of the stack.

If this role sounds exciting, but your experience does not match every bullet, we still encourage you to apply.

## Compensation:

* For candidates based in California, New York and Washington States, the compensation range is: $180,000 – $325,000
* For candidates based elsewhere in the US, the compensation range is: $150,000 – $275,000
* For candidates based in Canada, the compensation range is: $215,000 – $385,000.

## **Full-Time Employees at Cohere enjoy these Perks:**

* 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.
* 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, but we also have offices in Toronto, London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul with more opening 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.

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply. 

  
We 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](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12a6IrLdF3kI2nonKSr4tiFuz18rLQbaeYV-JM9L4o9Q/edit), 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.

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