Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

### Who you are

• Have shipped (lots of) Python in production
• You have built and deployed extremely performant client-side or server-side RAG/agentic applications to millions of users
• 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

### What the job involves

• 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
• 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

### Benefits

• We cover 100% of premiums across health, dental, vision & travel
• We offer RRSP, 401K, and Pension Scheme contributions
• We offer lunch and fitness studio credits and a quality time fund which can be spent on things like dog walking and laundry services
• We want everyone who contributes to our success to get a ‘piece of the pie’
• Work Remote & PTO
• We know that some people work better at home, so we are remote-first, and sure that all meetings, events, and opportunities are set up for our distributed team
• Every employee at Cohere gets 6 weeks of paid time off & US and Canadian federal holidays, and we provide unlimited sick days
• All new parents (including those who adopt or go through a surrogate journey) are eligible to receive 100% salary for 6 months in Canada, the US, and the UK
• The decision and journey to having kids is different for each person and family. Part of our commitment to diversity is being able to support the widest variety of these scenarios as we can so we offer financial support for egg freezing and IVF for those in the US, Canada and the UK
• Every employee at Cohere receives an annual $2,000 education fund to use as they please