Engineering Manager, Patient Solutions

athenahealth, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter support

Employee assistance program

Tuition assistance

Dog-friendly offices

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking an Engineering Manager, Patient Solutions in a hybrid role based in Austin, TX. You will lead a team of 6–10 engineers across multiple workstreams, partner with Product/UX/Architecture, and drive dependable delivery in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will shape engineering practices, track metrics, and advance AI-assisted development while ensuring security and compliance. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will balance delivery with technical debt and

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering people-management experience with a demonstrated ability to hire, motivate, coach, and develop engineers while creating an inclusive, engaged, and accountable team culture.
• Strong delivery-management skills, including organizing parallel workstreams, tracking milestones and dependencies, identifying and mitigating risks, and communicating progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated product mindset with experience coordinating across Product, Design/UX, Architecture, and Engineering without direct authority.
• Sufficient technical fluency to participate in architecture, system design, and trade-off discussions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and evaluating their use in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering team’s delivery, including prioritization, staffing, planning, risk management, execution, and quality; identify dependencies and blockers.
• Build and lead an engaged, high-performing team by setting clear expectations and providing timely feedback in an inclusive environment.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; support career growth; manage performance and staffing decisions.
• Partner with Product, UX, internal users, and engineering leaders to understand customer needs, influence roadmaps, and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Guide technical direction with architects and senior engineers on design trade-offs and implementation approaches.
• Define and track engineering excellence metrics such as delivery predictability, quality, and team health.
• Ensure security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility requirements are met in engineering practices and product delivery.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted development practices to improve planning, delivery, and team effectiveness.
• Act as incident commander for the team, guiding debugging, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
• Balance delivery commitments with technical debt, system reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Skills

People management

Delivery management

Stakeholder communication

Product mindset

AI-assisted development

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. The Engineering Manager, Patient Solutions is a people-first leader who builds engaged, high-performing teams, develops a deep understanding of customers and their needs, and creates the structure and clarity to deliver high-quality patient-facing products predictably.

This hybrid role, based in Austin, TX is responsible for team leadership, delivery execution, technical partnership, and cross-functional alignment in a regulated healthcare environment. The position helps shape engineering operating practices, team metrics, and how the organization applies AI-assisted development. This role reports to the Director of Engineering.

Team Summary

Patient Solutions builds patient-facing web, iOS, and Android experiences that modernize engagement and access workflows for athenahealth practices, including payments and other patient-facing workflows.

The Engineering Manager leads a team of 6–10 junior and senior engineers organized into parallel pods, owning people development and dependable delivery across multiple workstreams. Working closely with Product, UX, Architecture, and peer Engineering teams, the manager aligns priorities, removes blockers, and helps deliver high-quality software in a regulated healthcare environment. The role combines people leadership with technical partnership, contributing to architecture, incident follow-up, and effective AI-assisted development practices.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Own the engineering team’s delivery, including prioritization, staffing, planning, risk management, execution, and quality; proactively identify dependencies, remove blockers, and adjust plans as conditions change.
• Build and lead an engaged, high-performing engineering team by setting clear expectations, connecting each person’s work to meaningful outcomes, recognizing contributions, providing direct and timely feedback, and creating an inclusive environment in which people can do their best work.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers; support their career growth; manage performance fairly and consistently; and make thoughtful staffing and team-structure decisions.
• Partner with Product, UX, internal users, and engineering leaders to understand customer needs, influence roadmaps, align priorities, and manage cross-team dependencies.
• Guide technical direction by collaborating with architects and senior or principal engineers on design trade-offs and implementation approaches.
• Define and track engineering excellence metrics, such as delivery predictability, quality, and team health.
• Ensure that engineering practices and product delivery meet applicable security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility requirements.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted development practices for yourself and within the organization, including identifying practical ways to improve planning, delivery, and team effectiveness.
• Serve as incident commander for your team, providing escalation support, representing customer needs, guiding debugging and root-cause analysis, translating findings into architecture and process improvements, and participating in retrospectives to strengthen future response and prevent recurrence.
• Balance delivery commitments with management of technical debt, system reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Support onboarding and ramp-up for new team members.
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning, roadmap discussions, and dependency management.
• Establish clear operating norms, engineering practices, and documentation that improve communication, decision-making, and execution.

Expected Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of software engineering people-management experience with a demonstrated ability to hire, motivate, coach, and develop engineers while creating an inclusive, engaged, and accountable team culture.
• Strong delivery-management skills, including organizing parallel workstreams, tracking milestones and dependencies, identifying and mitigating risks, and communicating progress clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A demonstrated product mindset, with experience influencing and coordinating across Product, Design/UX, Architecture, and Engineering without direct authority.
• Sufficient technical fluency to effectively participate in architecture, system design, implementation, quality, and other trade-off discussions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and evaluating their use in engineering workflows.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with web, iOS, and/or Android delivery environments.
• Experience in the healthcare industry.
• Experience using iterative delivery practices and metrics to improve predictability, quality, and team effectiveness.
• Experience managing multiple teams, pods, or parallel engineering workstreams.

Expected Compensation

$156,000 - $266,000 The 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, athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

United by our mission and driven by our entrepreneurial spirit, our work at athenahealth is collaborative, transformative, and above all, it’s meaningful. Our employees take pride in using technology and data-driven insights to inspire changes that will make the U.S. healthcare system better for everyone, including your friends, family and maybe even you.