Principal Software Engineer, athenaCollector – UX Frameworks

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 UX Frameworks team, within the Collector Platform organization. Collector is a key product of the athenaOne suite, helping our medical provider clients manage their business and revenue cycle (RCM), automating claims and billing, for well over $200 billion in client revenue. At Collector Platform, we build the technical backbone that empowers athenaOne developers accelerate innovation, thereby helping shape the future of healthcare.

But enough about us; let’s talk about you.

You are an experienced Frontend Engineer, who is passionate about building the next generation UX frameworks and components that are of high quality. You are willing to think deeply about problems at a UI-Platform level, with an eye to improving the consistency and quality of the user experience across hundreds of workflows across athenaOne. You demonstrate and inspire design & engineering excellence and have experience building web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator and a nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare space.

The Team

Your future team is responsible for designing, building and maintaining UX frameworks and components to enable our R&D teams efficiently create a common product experience using athena-specific, intuitive and performant workflow models.

Come join this innovative team that is moving quickly to meet the fast-growing market demand.

Job Responsibilities

1. Provide technical leadership and contribute individually to system design and development as part of an Agile team consisting of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and a UX Designer.
2. Design scalable and high-performing applications, adhering to agreed-upon best practices.
3. Mentor other engineers on the team and the broader development organization on technical design best practices.
4. Develop high-quality software components and services in adherence with R&D guidelines on Security, Performance, Scalability, etc.
5. Lead by example to position code review as an important vehicle for 2-way teaching and learning to improve code quality and avoid tech debt.
6. Align resources and synchronize efforts across multiple teams to deliver on product and business goals.
7. Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions and promote productivity and effectiveness.
8. Take ownership of what the team builds and coordinate efforts to ensure proper completion.
9. Contribute to the architectural roadmap. Direct company-wide application software architecture design methods, tools, and practices. Lead the evolution of technical design tools, techniques and strategies.
10. Take a leadership role in all operational activities and be the go-to person when a complex live site/production incident occurs.
11. Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences.

Typical Qualifications

1. 12-15 years of software engineering experience with significant product development expertise.
2. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
3. Extensive experience with modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript and React.
4. Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: Java, Spring Boot, Node JS, React, JavaScript/jQuery, TypeScript.
5. Knowledge of datastores such as OpenSearch, PostgreSQL RDS, DynamoDB, S3.
6. Experience architecting/developing solutions on AWS.
7. Knowledge of Version control management tools like Perforce & Git.
8. Knowledge of DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy, Docker.
9. Experience with object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech and RESTful APIs.
10. Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle.
11. Experience creating test frameworks.
12. Aiding the development of frontend architecture.
13. Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable.
14. Ability to lead teams/technical projects including technical design, scoping and estimation.
15. We work in an Agile environment; experience with Agile and CI/CD concepts preferred.

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.