Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

We are looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Platform R&D team.

The team: The Platform team within athenahealth is responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining all the core foundational components that are required by other development teams within athenahealth to successfully build their products. In addition, the team also delivers select end use features. Overall, the team supports the rapid innovation and delivery of services and capabilities and is focused on improving developer productivity, lowering risk during development and production, keeping current product suites reliable and scalable & create additional revenue stream out of Platform as a Service.

This role is with the Migrations team within the Platform zone, and it specializes in moving bulk data internally within athena. We are focused on building a platform for our Operations team to run migrations frictionlessly.

The Role: Our team’s primary business goal is to enable data migration and management to support client growth and operational scalability across provider networks

You will play crucial role in:

Developing comprehensive solutions for migrating customer data at massive scale, using on-prem and cloud technologies
Enhancing existing workflows and developing new and innovative workflows through the introduction of AI and ML
Improving the experience for healthcare providers and services partner

Job Responsibilities   

Lead, design and develop software on Agile teams of Engineers, Scrum Master, Product Owners, and U/X Designers
Collaborate with and/or mentor and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness
Share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization
Deliver high quality products and features in Agile, fast-paced environment
Collaborate effectively with Product, Technology and Services teams
Focus on meeting customer needs and expectations

Typical Qualifications   

8+ years of hands-on software development experience
Bachelor’s degree, bootcamp, or equivalent computer science experience is a must
Demonstrable proficiency in building and delivering enterprise scale applications and services
Proficiency in at least one modern Object-Oriented Programming language such as Java/NodeJS/Python
Experience with relational databases such as Oracle/PostgreSQL
Familiarity with modern UI frameworks and JavaScript
Experience working on Agile teams
Familiarity with Unix/Linux command utilities, and RESTful API practices
Experience developing scalable, high performance, distributed, and cloud-based services
AWS experience preferred
Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps tools and processes
AI/ML experience is a plus
Familiarity with Healthcare Data Exchange – HL7/FHIR is a plus

About athenahealth

Here’s ourvision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19thcentury arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant,allofathenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our10offices across the United States and India —plus numerous remote employees —all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.

Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story.athenahealth develops andimplements products and services that support US healthcare: It’sour chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees — orathenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplishour goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing theirbestselves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enoughthatyourindividual contributionswill stand out— butlarge enoughto grow your career with ourresources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. OurathenaGivesplatform strives tosupport food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’sCorporate Social Responsibility(CSR)program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits,athenistasenjoy perks specific to eachlocation, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance,employeeresource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, includingbook clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And weprovideathenistaswithacompany culturebased onlearning,the support of anengaged team,andan inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

We alsoencourage a better work-life balance forathenistaswith our flexibility. Whilewe know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

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