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Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
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Lead Software Engineer, Services and Tasks
Role Summary
The Lead Software Engineer will lead full-stack development efforts across clinical workflow solutions, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership and design oversight. This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA, and supports the development of scalable, reliable software using React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, APIs, relational databases, and distributed systems. The role also includes evaluating and applying generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering tools to improve productivity and quality. This position will report to the Senior Engineering Manager.
Team Summary
The Clinicals Services & Tasks team owns the end-to-end arc of clinical work at the point of care - from the moment an order is created, through the documents that inform and result from it to the tasks that carry that work to completion across the practice. The team supports the systems and workflows that help clinicians and care teams move efficiently through complex work while reducing friction and cognitive load. This includes building and maintaining stable platform capabilities, improving user-facing workflows, and ensuring the underlying services can support dependable performance at scale. Team members work across application layers, service boundaries, and data models to improve the experience of clinical work from initiation to completion.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Lead full-stack engineering efforts across React-based frontend applications, Java services, and supporting APIs.
- Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and design oversight to engineers on the team.
- Develop and maintain features using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
- Design and support APIs and service integrations across distributed systems, including monolith and microservices environments.
- Build and optimize relational data models and database-backed application functionality.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners to translate requirements into maintainable technical solutions.
- Evaluate and apply generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, and delivery efficiency.
- Drive technical decisions that strengthen scalability, reliability, maintainability, and system clarity.
- Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and support durable fixes across application layers.
- Travel as needed to support team or business needs.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Contribute to planning and prioritization discussions for team delivery.
- Support code reviews and promote consistent engineering practices.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to improve workflow clarity and implementation alignment.
- Help refine engineering standards, documentation, and team operating practices.
- Assist in evaluating legacy technologies and migration paths in large-scale production environments.
- Explore GraphQL, Unix/Linux, and other tools or technologies that may improve platform capabilities.
- Participate in incident response and operational follow-up when needed.
- Recommend improvements to developer productivity, deployment workflows, and testing practices.
- Share knowledge across the broader engineering organization through informal mentoring and technical discussions.
Expected Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in software engineering or full-stack application development.
- Demonstrated experience leading full-stack development teams, including technical mentoring and design oversight.
- Proficiency with React, modern frontend architecture, and core web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Strong programming experience in Java.
- Experience working with generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering tools in day-to-day development workflows.
- Solid experience with relational databases and data modeling.
- Experience designing and supporting APIs and working across distributed systems and evolving system architectures, including monolith and microservices environments.
- Exposure to GraphQL, Unix/Linux environments, and legacy technologies in large-scale production systems is a plus.
- Strong communication skills, ownership, and accountability, with a demonstrated track record of adopting new technologies.
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment in Boston, MA.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and cross-functional partners in a product-focused environment
Expected Compensation
$143,000 - $243,000The 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 healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can 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.
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.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. 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.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6 years of experience in software engineering or full-stack application development
- Experience leading full-stack development teams, including technical mentoring and design oversight
- Proficiency with React, modern frontend architecture, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Strong programming experience in Java
- Experience with generative AI and AI-assisted software engineering tools
- Experience with relational databases and data modeling
- Experience designing and supporting APIs across distributed systems, monoliths, and microservices
- Exposure to GraphQL, Unix/Linux, and legacy technologies in large-scale production systems
- Strong communication skills, ownership, accountability, and demonstrated adoption of new technologies
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment in Boston, Massachusetts
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and cross-functional product partners
athenahealth Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about athenahealth and has not been reviewed or approved by athenahealth.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision options alongside additional protections like accident and critical illness coverage. Mental health support and EAP-style counseling resources are also part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-away offerings include PTO that covers vacation and sick time, paid holidays, and options for leaves of absence and sabbaticals. Flexible time off is positioned as a meaningful part of the overall rewards package for some roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer matching, supported by broader financial wellbeing resources. Equity and performance bonuses are also referenced as part of total rewards.
athenahealth Insights
What We Do
athenahealth strives to cure complexity and simplify the practice of healthcare. Our innovative technology includes electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement solutions that help healthcare providers, administrators, and practices eliminate friction for patients while getting paid efficiently. athenahealth partners with practices with purpose-built software backed by expertise to produce the insights needed to drive better clinical and financial outcomes. We’re inspired by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
We are here to make an impact on the healthcare industry at scale. We enable our diverse teams to move fast, grapple with interesting technical challenges, and innovate at every level. We are on a modernization journey and build on the hybrid cloud. We deliver best-in-class solutions to help every patient receive the best possible care.
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