Lead Member of Technical Staff

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

Lead Member of Technical Staff, Development. MULTIPLE OPENINGS. Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail. Deliver customer value in the form of high-quality software components and services in adherence with RPR policies on security, performance, longevity and integration testing. Proactively identify and propose new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results. Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points; challenge other during estimation. Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services. Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so. Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes. Participate in team member interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions. Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR). Adhere to DOD as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices. Perform peer code reviews in order to ensure quality standards. Participate and contribute to scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospectives. Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance. Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery; Coordinate efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness. Drive self-organization; help determine how the team functions in collaboration with your peers. Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team. Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals. Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions. Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members and business stakeholders. Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences. Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related IT field (or foreign degree equivalent). Required Experience: At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience. Other Requirements: At least 5 years of experience in an Agile environment; At least 5 years of experience with at least one modern programming language such as C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, JavaScript/jQuery; At least 5 years of experience with Unix/Linux, SQL or NOSQL; At least 5 years of experience with at least one of the following: object-oriented programing; relational database technologies; RESTful API; distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark); WebUI (HTML 5); or Modern JS frameworks. 9-5, M-F. $161,000-$257,000/year. Benefits summary: Health insurance, 401k, commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, collaborative workspaces, sponsored events including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Please send resumes to athenahealth, Inc. HR at globalmobilityandimmigration@athenahealth.com, Reference #: 594994.

Job Location: Reports to athenahealth, Inc. HQ in Boston, MA 02135. Telecommuting permissible from home office anywhere in the U.S.

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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