Software Engineer, North for Finance at Cohere

Role overview

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!

North is Cohere's cutting-edge AI workspace platform, designed for enterprise users. 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, data and applications.

The North for Finance team builds specialized AI solutions for finance teams while accelerating adoption of agentic workflows for their mission-critical operations. You'll work at the intersection of AI innovation and financial services, developing features that integrate domain-specific knowledge with enterprise-grade reliability.

As an engineer on this team you will help transform complex financial workflows through intelligent automation. You'll extend core agentic platform capabilities with built-in data isolation, structured-data manipulation and collaborative governance, positioning North as the leading AI workspace for finance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

Design, build, ship, and maintain customer facing workflows and agentic automations

Own features end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, testing, launch, and iteration.

Collaborate closely with Product, UX, ML, and Sales teams to validate requirements and prototype quickly

Work closely with customers in the finance domain

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver software or solutions for finance product engineering.
• Collaborate with research, product, security and customer teams.
• Improve reliability, performance, testing, automation and documentation.
• Turn complex requirements into maintainable production capabilities.

Qualifications

• You have built, shipped, and operated production software used by thousands of users
• You have strong product judgment, pay attention to details and care deeply about the end user needs
• You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a moving target
• You bring high agency: you learn quickly and drive change without waiting for perfect instructions.
• You are curious and can identify, troubleshoot and fix issues across systems boundaries
• You can clearly document and track architectural proposals and technical decisions
• You are excited to use AI, while staying directly accountable for the systems you build
• You have integrated AI agents in your day-to-day with well structured workflows
• Familiarity with agentic AI architectures and implementation patterns
• Knowledge of access control implementation in complex systems
• 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:
• 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.

Technology in this role

• CAN: You have built, shipped, and operated production software used by thousands of users You have strong product judgment, pay attention to details and care deeply about the end user needs You excel in fast-paced environments and can execute while priorities and objectives are a .

Benefits

• 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.
• Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.

About Cohere

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.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how enterprises harness the power of AI in real-world applications. As a bridge between our core North product and our clients’ engineering teams, you’ll be at the forefront of solving complex problems and securely integrating AI into critical sectors such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

We’re looking for Software Engineers with Applied AI experience who can own the design, build, and deployment of agentic workflows powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), from early prototypes to production-grade AI agents, to deliver concrete business value in enterprise workflows. You’ll work closely with customers on real-world business problems, often building first-of-their-kind agent workflows that integrate LLMs with tools, APIs, and data sources. While our pace is startup-fast, the bar is enterprise-high: agents must be reliable, observable, safe, and auditable from day one.

Note: between 20 - 40% travel anticipated.

Work closely with our enterprise customers to translate high-value, ambiguous business problems into well-framed agentic workflows with clear success criteria and evaluation methodologies

Lead the design, build, and delivery of LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools, APIs, and sensitive enterprise data sources, with enterprise-grade reliability and performance

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