Senior Software Engineer, RCM Rules — Hybrid Role

athenahealth; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter support

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Dog-friendly offices

Job summary

athenahealth in Boston is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the athenaCollector Rules team to build scalable revenue cycle management software for healthcare providers. In this hybrid role, you will design and deliver secure, maintainable services across claims processing and billing workflows within the athenaOne platform.

You will work on frontend and backend, SQL models, cloud deployment on AWS, IaC with Terraform, and will mentor juniors while exploring AI capabilities to improve

Qualifications

• Strong experience building frontend applications using React, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop user-facing experiences using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Develop and maintain backend services in Java and Spring Boot.
• Create, optimize, and maintain SQL-based data models and queries for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Support deployment and operation of containerized services on AWS, including ECS, EKS, EC2, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Partner with platform and SRE teams to strengthen reliability, observability, and operational readiness.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code and DevOps automation practices; Terraform experience is a plus.
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers in design discussions, code reviews, and delivery planning.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes that reduce operational risk.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team learning, technical discussions, and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to architectural conversations and help shape technical direction for the product area.
• Produce technical documentation, runbooks, and API documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support performance tuning, scalability testing, and continuous improvement of software quality.
• Explore and apply AI capabilities in engineering workflows and product features, that improve productivity and client outcomes.
• Support deployment and integration activities as needed.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and incident response support as needed.

Skills

React

Java

TypeScript

SQL

AWS

AI/LLM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Oracle/PostgreSQL

Job description

athenahealth in Boston is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the athenaCollector Rules team to build scalable revenue cycle management software for healthcare providers. In this hybrid role, you will design and deliver secure, maintainable services across claims processing and billing workflows within the athenaOne platform.

You will work on frontend and backend, SQL models, cloud deployment on AWS, IaC with Terraform, and will mentor juniors while exploring AI capabilities to improve