Senior Software Engineer Backend – Self Check-In

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 Self Check-in features.

You are a senior level developer who demonstrates design and 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

We’re building the next generation of online patient check-in solutions. These solutions streamline and improve the accuracy of the process for providers and their patients.

As a part of this team, you’ll be writing code that constantly improves these experiences for millions of patients. Know that your work matters by building software that makes a difference in the lives of real people.

You’ll be part of a full-stack team as a back-end-focused developer. Your job is to develop scalable API solutions to support patient-facing front-ends.

We aspire to use all the usual industry best practices such as continuous delivery and iterative agile methodologies. We do two-week sprints and rollout our features quickly to a subset of our customers for feedback as they mature.

Job Responsibilities

• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• Proactively identifies and proposes new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results.
• 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.

Typical Qualifications

• Ideally 4+ years of software engineering experience with significant product development expertise
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience with Java Spring Boot and web application development
• Strong foundation in REST API development and cloud services such as AWS
• Experience creating test frameworks
• Aiding the development of back-end architecture
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable
• Experience with Agile and CI / CD concepts an added plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience creating test frameworks (e.g. JUnit).
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience with deployment (CI / CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket, etc.

About athenahealth

Here’s ourvision : To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?

From an historic, 19thcentury arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant,allofathenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams.

Our10offices 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 andimplements products and services that support US healthcare : It’sour chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees orathenistas, as we call ourselves spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplishour 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 theirbestselves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too : We are small enoughthatyourindividual contributionswill stand out butlarge enoughto grow your career with ourresources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. OurathenaGivesplatform strives tosupport 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’sCorporate 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,athenistasenjoy perks specific to eachlocation, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance,employeeresource groups, and collaborative workspaces some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, includingbook clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.

And weprovideathenistaswithacompany culturebased onlearning,the support of anengaged team,andan inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

We alsoencourage a better work-life balance forathenistaswith our flexibility. Whilewe 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.

athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law.

We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process.

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