Principal Software Engineer

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 Principal Software Engineer to join our athenaCollector team.

In athenaCollector we build technology solutions that helps patients to make payments using various payment modes. This Collector team is implementing the PCI compliant Credit Card payment collection, cheque or ACH modes of payment and brings financial visibility of health care services.
  
You are a principal developer with extensive experience in designing and building full stack enterprise applications, preferably in public and private cloud environment. You are an excellent communicator and nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare or payment space. 

The Team: The athenaCollector product builds a critical part of the athenaOne platform, which helps our medical provider clients manage their business and revenue cycle (RCM), automating claims and billing for well over $200 billion in client revenue. This Zone is committed building new and exciting capabilities to improve how we help health practices collect the right patient insurance, understand eligibility benefits, improve cost transparency, drive effective billing workflows, and offer flexible payment solutions. This team is focused on making the billing and payment process simple, transparent, and flexible for both healthcare practices and their patients.

Job Responsibilities 

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications with the appropriate. detail.  Lead design and development on an agile team of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and Experience Designer.  
• Collaborate, mentor, and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.  
• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert. Take ownership of what the team builds and oversee efforts across the team to ensure completion.  

Typical Qualifications 

• 10+ years of experience with significant software engineering skills and computer science experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. 
• Hands-on experience with Java based technologies and ReactJS / Angular, JavaScript is very desirable.
• Knowledge of Linux, SQL, RESTful API, AWS (EC2, Docker, Kubernetes) and broad technologies.
• Prior experience with Perl, Spring Boot framework, PostgreSQL, Terraform or similar technology is desirable.

Agile experience or CI/CD concepts is desirable

About athenahealth

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

What’s unique about our locations? 
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices 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 and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.  

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our 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 their best selves to work.