Senior Software Developer, Platform and Data Services - Code Insights

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 Senior Software Developer to join our Platform and Data Services division. You will be partnering with senior engineering and product leadership to do great things. Ultimately your work will focus on design, development, and maintainability of the SDLC and adjacent tools like SonarQube, Backstage, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.

The Team: Code Insights (INSIGHTS) is a team focused on multiple SDLC tools such as SonarQube, Code Ownership, Backstage and much more, as it is vital in enhancing the SDLC workflow, developer experience and the discovery of code relationships both in the monolith and microservice SDLC pipelines. 

But enough about us, let’s talk about you.

You are a developer who is a fast learner, well versed in programming languages, and has good experience working SDLC/DevOps tools like SonarQube, Jenkins, Source Management tools like Bitbucket, Perforce and design & building developer portals. You must be able to guide and mentor a set of junior developers to groom their capabilities. You will be partnering with Product and Business leadership on a day-to-day basis for requirements and prioritisation. You are a tenacious, but nimble learner, who demonstrates design & engineering excellence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail.   
• Coordinate and troubleshoot complex technical issues until resolution.
• Act as the subject matter expert for area of assignment   
• Identify and reduce manual work through automation by applying a code first mentality.
• Participate in scrum teams following practices outlined by the team.
• Advise and train members of the team to maximise overall productivity and effectiveness of the team.
• Proactively identify and proposes new, alternative technology to create scalable implementations and achieve results.
• Understand and follow engineering conventions, architectures, and best practices.

Typical Qualifications:

• Ideally 4 years of software engineering experience with significant product development expertise  
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: Java, Python, and JavaScript/jQuery  
• Strong foundation in cloud services such as AWS
• Good knowledge and experience in IaC tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Puppet.
• Strong experience on SDLC tools like SonarQube, Jenkins, Bitbucket and build automation tools like Maven and Gradle and developer portal tools like Backstage.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, Graph DBs like Neo4j.
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable.

• Experience with Agile and CI/CD concepts

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. 

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability. 
 
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support 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’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve sel