AthenaHealth Integration Engineer

Matter Health; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Matter Health is seeking an Athena Developer & Integration Analyst to own the Athena API integrations, platform configuration, and extensions across athenaOne and athenaClinicals. This hands-on role focuses on API development, endpoint integration, and AI-enabled tooling to reduce clinician documentation burden.

The ideal candidate will design, build, and maintain integrations, work with Salesforce connectors, ensure secure data flows, and collaborate with clinical and IT teams to optimize

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in CS, Health Informatics, Information Systems or equivalent.
• 3–5 years hands-on API development against athenaOne/athenaClinicals REST and FHIR endpoints.
• Proven ability to design and maintain custom integrations using athenahealth APIs.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/Node.js, or Java for API development.
• Knowledge of HL7 v2 and FHIR R4 data standards.
• Familiarity with athenaClinicals configuration, user/provider setup, templates, and order sets.
• Understanding of HIPAA and healthcare data privacy and security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain custom integrations on the athenaOne platform via REST and FHIR APIs.
• Own the full API development lifecycle, including OAuth authentication and endpoint versioning.
• Prototype AI-enabled tooling to reduce documentation burden and surface clinical insights.
• Monitor API changes, test, and rollout platform and integration updates.
• Collaborate with athenahealth support and partners for API issues and new endpoints.
• Build bidirectional integrations between athenaClinicals and Salesforce with middleware and webhooks.
• Manage data mapping, transformation, and error handling for inbound/outbound data flows.

Skills

API development

Programming languages

HL7 & FHIR

HIPAA knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Health Informatics or related

Tools

athenahealth APIs

Salesforce integration

REST APIs / OAuth

Job description

Athena Developer & Integration Analyst

About Matter Health

Matter Health delivers primary and preventive healthcare directly to older adults living in public housing communities.

Our mission is simple: to improve healthcare access by meeting patients where they are and building trusted relationships within the communities we serve. We are rapidly expanding and are seeking mission-driven professionals who thrive in fast-paced, people-centered environments.

We Lead with Love in Everything We Do.

About the Role

Matter Health is seeking a hands-on, technically skilled Athena Developer & Integration Analyst to join our Information Technology team. This individual contributor role will own the development, extension, and integration of our EHR ecosystem, serving as the organization’s go-to technical resource on the athenaOne API suite, custom endpoint development, and platform-level configuration.

Our value‑based care model depends on a deeply extended, tightly integrated athenaOne platform to support our field‑based clinical teams. You will build against athenahealth's 800+ endpoint API surface, architect integrations, and extend what athenaOne can do for our care teams—while also evaluating and introducing AI and agentic tooling that can reduce documentation burden and surface clinical insight for the people doing the work.

This is primarily a software engineering role: writing code against athenahealth's APIs, designing integrations, and extending platform capabilities. Platform administration and configuration are a critical but secondary function, providing senior‑level expertise in support of existing administrative capability. This position reports to the Chief Technology Officer. This is a fully remote role with up to 10% travel for occasional in‑person meetings or team offsites.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain custom integrations and extensions on the athenaOne platform using athenahealth's REST and FHIR APIs across Clinicals, Collector, Communicator, and Population Health endpoints

• Own the full API development lifecycle for athenaOne integrations, including sandbox testing, OAuth 2.0 authentication and token management, endpoint evaluation, versioning, and production rollout

• Evaluate and prototype AI and agentic tooling within the athenahealth ecosystem—including Marketplace AI-powered solutions and LLM-based workflow automation—to reduce documentation burden and surface clinical insight for field‑based care teams

• Monitor athenahealth API changelogs and release notes, evaluate new endpoints and capabilities as they are released, and manage regression testing and rollout of platform and integration updates

• Work directly with athenahealth's developer support and partner teams to resolve API issues, request custom endpoints, and pilot new AI-enabled capabilities

• Design, build, and maintain bidirectional integrations between athenaClinicals and Salesforce, including the middleware, webhooks, and custom API calls that keep both systems in sync

• Manage authentication, data mapping, transformation logic, and error handling for inbound and outbound data flows—including referrals, care plans, visit data, care team updates, and SDOH data—using REST, HL7, and FHIR-based interfaces as appropriate

• Partner with clinical leadership to translate workflow needs into athenaClinicals build and configuration, moving fluidly between configuration and code as needed

• Provide senior‑level backup on athenaOne administration, including user roles and provider setup, departments and permission structures, templates, order sets, and quality and HCC risk‑capture workflows tailored to a DSNP, dual‑eligible population

• Maintain technical documentation of integration architecture, API usage, data mappings, system configuration, and change history for audit and compliance purposes

• Troubleshoot API errors, data sync failures, and integration issues across the athenaOne platform and the Salesforce‑athenaClinicals integration, serving as the primary internal point of contact for EHR functionality and technical integration questions

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent experience considered

• 3–5 years of experience working with athenahealth products, with the majority in hands‑on API development against athenaOne/athenaClinicals REST and FHIR endpoints

• Demonstrated, hands‑on experience designing, building, and maintaining custom integrations using athenahealth's APIs, including OAuth-based authentication, webhook configuration, and endpoint‑level troubleshooting

• Proficiency with at least one modern programming or scripting language such as Python, JavaScript/Node.js, or Java for API development

• Working knowledge of HL7 v2 and FHIR R4 data standards

• Working familiarity with athenaClinicals configuration and administration, including user and provider setup, templates, and order sets

• Understanding of HIPAA and healthcare data privacy and security requirements as they apply to system configuration and integrations

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical, clinical, and operational teams

Preferred

• Hands‑on experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM or care‑coordination platform integration

• Experience with AI or agentic tooling in the athenahealth ecosystem, such as Marketplace AI-powered apps, ambient documentation tools, or LLM-based workflow automation

• Familiarity with quality measures, HCC and risk adjustment documentation, and special needs plan (DSNP) reporting requirements

• Experience in home‑based care, geriatrics, or value‑based care settings

• Experience in a fast‑growing, mission‑driven healthcare organization