Senior Backend Engineer – PEX

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

Role Summary

Join athenahealth as a Backend Senior Software Engineer based in Austin, TX, working in a hybrid environment that combines remote and on-site collaboration. You are an engineer who demonstrates design and engineering proficiency and has experience building full-stack web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator and nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare space. This role reports to the Engineering Manager and plays a key role in advancing our software solutions.

Team Summary

We are building the next generation of EMR scheduling and practice management software designed to streamline and enhance the accuracy of scheduling processes for healthcare providers and their patients. This team focuses on building the next generation of EMR scheduling and practice management software designed to streamline and improve the accuracy of scheduling processes for healthcare providers and their patients. As part of this team, you will write code that continuously enhances these experiences for millions of patients, making a meaningful impact on healthcare delivery. You’ll be part of a full-stack team as a backend-focused developer and your job is to develop and support backend by highly performant and scalable APIs. The team follows industry best practices such as continuous delivery and iterative agile methodologies. We operate in two-week sprints and rapidly roll out features to subsets of customers to gather feedback and refine solutions as they mature. This approach ensures that our software evolves in alignment with user needs and business goals.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software aligned with business requirements

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining coding standards and best practices

• Adhere to DoD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, bug fixes, documentation, and coding best practices.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable.

• Experience creating test frameworks.

• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies. 

• Experience with deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket, etc.

• Full-Stack experience or interest

Expected Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience with Java, C#/.NET, and GraphQL

• Ideally 4+ years of software engineering experience with product development expertise.

• Experience with API-First design.

 

Expected Compensation

$113,000 - $193,000

The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates.  Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

 

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: Our talented  employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable he