Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique values-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance. As evidence of our rapid growth and industry leadership, we were acquired by the world’s leading private equity firm “Bain Capital” in 2022 for $17bn! and we have many new strategic product initiatives
Position Summary: We are looking for a Lead Member of Technical Staff - LMTS who is an experienced front-end developer, to join our Marketplace team within our Platform division.
The Team: It owns the Marketplace “app store” (marketplace.athenahealth.com) that showcases integrations built as “add-ons” to athena’s full portfolio of products including electronic medical record, medical billing, patient engagement, population health, and care coordination. These apps enable practices to streamline specific workflows and extend the capabilities offered natively within athenaOne. The Marketplace hosts over 300 applications and these apps are used by more than half of our client base. In this role, you will be responsible for shaping the app store experience for both partners and customers, driving adoption of Marketplace apps, personalize the options based on characteristics of the practice, all while delivering this public site with consumer-grade usability.
Job Responsibilities
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Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
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Critique technical documentation as needed
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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
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Proactively Identifies and proposes new, alternative technology to create scalable implementations and achieve results.
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Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points, challenge other during estimation
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Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services
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Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so
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Write, debug, and safely deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
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Scale systems to meet business demand
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Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR)
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Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices
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Perform peer code reviews to ensure quality standards.
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Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Demonstrate ownership for what you and the team build and deploy in production.
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Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals
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Coordinate efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness
Typical Qualifications
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8+ years of commercial software development experience with significant
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Significant experience in front end development preferably Modern JS frameworks (JavaScript, React, Node.js)
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Should have a robust knowledge of CSS and best practices
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Full stack development experience is an added advantage
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Experience with any Content Management system is desirable
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Experience of Distributed systems and Microservices.
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Familiarity in AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
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Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices; familiarity with unit and integration testing, as well as design and code reviews and documentation.
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Ability to write code that is technically sound, testable, resilient, performant, scalable, extensible and readable.
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Experience with DevOps principles, and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket and other source code repositories.
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Familiarity with application build, deployment, monitoring tools & frameworks like CI/CD in Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog etc.
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Strong communication skills to work across geographies, and a record of engineering achievement, code ownership, and customer orientation.
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Strong mentoring and coaching skills that encourage growth for more junior members.
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Track record of designing and delivering cloud-based products, modules, and services.
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Proven track record of implementing and adopting new technologies and methodologies.
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 selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
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What We Do
At athenahealth, it’s our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. With a thoughtful balance of humanity and technology, we’re able to uncover meaningful healthcare insights that can help create healthier futures for our families, our communities, and ourselves.
athenahealth partners with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services. We combine insights from our network of more than 160,000 providers and approximately 117 million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform administrative work at scale.
Our cloud-based and on-premises solutions deliver measurable financial and clinical results for healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes. That’s why our top-performing clients are beating industry benchmarks across the board.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
Our vibrant and talented employees spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goals. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where we each feel comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
