Senior Software Engineer — AI-Driven Healthcare Platform

athenahealth; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter support

Employee assistance programs

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Collaborative workspaces

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in our Boston-based hybrid team. You will design and build scalable, secure software powering clinical workflows for specialty practices, owning features end-to-end from design to production support.

The role covers frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud infra, with collaboration across product and design teams. You will help evolve AI-assisted workflows and mentor peers in responsible AI usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience in a product development organization.
• Strong full-stack development experience including backend services, frontend applications, APIs, data persistence, and production support.
• Solid backend development experience using Java or modern OOP languages.
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend architecture.
• Experience working with Perl and/or Python in production environments.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs using REST and GraphQL.
• Experience with relational databases, data modeling, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with distributed systems and evolving architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support high-quality software as part of an agile, cross-functional product team.
• Work as a full-stack engineer across frontend, backend, APIs, data, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own features across the entire software development lifecycle, including requirements refinement, technical design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and ongoing production support.
• Develop strong knowledge of specialty clinical workflows to improve technical decision-making, ticket triage, dependency mapping, and cross-team coordination.
• Contribute to and help evolve team practices, including design reviews, feature readouts, agile ceremonies, code review standards, and testing strategy.
• Use Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and similar AI-assisted tools throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Critically evaluate, debug, and refine AI-generated code, tests, designs, and recommendations.
• Mentor other engineers on effective engineering practices and the responsible use of AI tools.

Skills

Full-stack development

Java

JavaScript

React

APIs

GraphQL

REST

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

4+ years software engineering experience

Tools

GraphQL

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Job description

athenahealth is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in our Boston-based hybrid team. You will design and build scalable, secure software powering clinical workflows for specialty practices, owning features end-to-end from design to production support.

The role covers frontend, backend, APIs, and cloud infra, with collaboration across product and design teams. You will help evolve AI-assisted workflows and mentor peers in responsible AI usage.