Lead Software Engineer - Migrations

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 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 —