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Senior Software Engineer – Patient Portal and Payment

athenahealth
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Aug 2025

About the role

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

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 Engineer to join our team of developers building the next generation of Patient Portal and Payment applications. You are someone who demonstrates design & engineering excellence 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.

The Team

The Financial teams within the Patient Portal and the Payment Organization provide a comprehensive suite of tools for patients to quickly and securely pay their providers for treatments and provide insight into their past payments.

Come join this innovative team that is moving quickly to meet the fast-growing market demand.

Job Responsibilities

  • Help come up with technical designs and solutions, write code to build features as part of an Agile team consisting of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and an Experience Designer

  • Develop reliable, maintainable, scalable full stack web applications using latest technologies

  • Maintain, support, and enhance existing software applications using best practices

  • Create and maintain automated tests for software

  • Build and deploy applications using CI/CD tools

  • Contribute documentation to support design, development, and maintenance of software platform

  • Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions and promote productivity and effectiveness; take ownership of what the team builds and coordinate efforts to ensure proper completion

  • Participate in design and code reviews to ensure best practices are followed

  • Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert

  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

  • Web application development experience with focus on the backend using Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Typescript

  • Clear understanding of OOD/OOP fundamental concepts, design patterns, and best practices.

  • Strong problem-solving skills. Debugging and troubleshooting skills are a must.

  • Proficiency with compilers, debuggers, IDE’s (e.g. VS, IntelliJ, Eclipse)

  • Experience with REST or GraphQL API development

  • Experience with deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket and other source code repositories

  • Experience with Cloud based services such as AWS (e.g. ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3)

  • Experience testing application software using TDD/BDD, creation and maintenance of automated tests (e.g. JUnit, Cucumber, Playwright, Xray)

  • Experience in full life cycle Agile software development using Jira and Confluence

  • Must be detail oriented and a self-starter

  • Multi-tasking with good follow through skills

  • Good written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as alone to accomplish tasks without supervision

Excited if you have

  • Experience with leveraging AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, etc.)

  • Perl experience would be a bonus

  • Experience with Microservice architecture and development

  • Frontend development experience using HTML, CSS, frameworks such as React

  • SecDevOps skills in AWS environment (e.g. configuration mgmt, automation, security, performance monitoring, IaC, etc.)

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 p

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