Principal Software Engineer

athenahealth; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in healthcare technology as a Principal Software Engineer, where you will help build solutions for payment systems in a scalable product platform. In this role, you'll leverage your extensive experience in software engineering to improve financial visibility and enhance healthcare service payments through innovative technology solutions.

Benefits

Tuition assistance

Employee assistance programs

Collaborative workspaces

Commuter support

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Java technologies and JavaScript frameworks.
• Knowledge of Linux, RESTful APIs, and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development on an agile team.
• Collaborate, mentor, and advise team members for productivity.
• Take ownership of team deliverables.

Skills

Software Engineering

Java

ReactJS

Angular

AWS

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

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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 Principal Software Engineer to join our athenaCollector team.

InathenaCollectorwe build technology solutions that helps patients to make payments using various payment modes. This Collector team is implementing the PCI compliant Credit Card payment collection, cheque or ACH modes of payment and brings financial visibility of health care services.



You are a principal developer with extensive experience in designing and building full stack enterprise applications, preferably in public and private cloud environment. You are an excellent communicator and nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare or payment space.

The Team: The athenaCollector product builds a critical part of the athenaOne platform, which helps our medical provider clients manage their business and revenue cycle (RCM), automating claims and billing for well over $200 billion in client revenue. This Zone is committed building new and exciting capabilities to improve how we help health practices collect the right patient insurance, understand eligibility benefits, improve cost transparency, drive effective billing workflows, and offer flexible payment solutions. This team is focused on making the billing and payment process simple, transparent, and flexible for both healthcare practices and their patients.



Job Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications with the appropriate. detail.Lead design and development on an agile team of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and Experience Designer.
• Collaborate,mentor, and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; sharebusiness and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.
• Developknowledge to act as a domain expert. Take ownership of what the team builds and oversee efforts across the team to ensure completion.
  
  

Typical Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with significant software engineering skills and computer science experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with Java based technologies and ReactJS / Angular,JavaScript is very desirable.
• Knowledge of Linux, SQL,RESTful API, AWS (EC2, Docker, Kubernetes) and broad technologies.
• Prior experience with Perl, Spring Boot framework, PostgreSQL, Terraform or similar technology is desirable.
  
  

Agile experience orCI/CD concepts is desirable

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 talentedemployees — 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 everyathenistafeels 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 collaborativeworkspaces— 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, athenahealthenablesemployees 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. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at [e-mail] for assistance.

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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