Senior Member of Technical Staff - SMTS

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Member of Technical Staff to join our Platform and Data Services division. In this role, you will collaborate with senior engineering and product leadership to design, develop, and maintain essential tools and services that enhance our software development lifecycle (SDLC) and adjacent tools. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring the robustness, efficiency, and scalability of our development processes and tools, including SonarQube, Backstage, Bitbucket, Jenkins, and others. Proficiency in Java, Python, or other programming languages is essential.

About You

You are a fast learner, well-versed in programming languages, with significant experience working with SDLC/DevOps tools. You can guide and mentor junior developers, helping them grow their capabilities. You will partner with Product and Business leadership daily to gather requirements and set priorities. You are a tenacious yet nimble learner who consistently demonstrates design and engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

· Technical Design: Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications with appropriate detail.

· Issue Resolution: Coordinate and troubleshoot complex technical issues until resolution.

· Expertise: Act as the subject matter expert for your area of assignment.

· Automation: Identify and reduce manual work through automation, applying a code-first mentality.

· Scrum Participation: Participate in scrum teams, following the practices outlined by the team.

· Mentorship: Advise and train team members to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness.

· Innovation: Proactively identify and propose new, alternative technologies to create scalable implementations and achieve results.

· Best Practices: Understand and follow engineering conventions, architectures, and best practices.

Typical Qualifications

· Experience: Ideally 5+ years of software engineering experience with significant product development expertise.

· Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

· Programming Languages: Knowledge of modern programming languages such as Java, Python, and JavaScript/jQuery.

· Cloud Services: Strong foundation in cloud services, particularly AWS.

· Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Good knowledge and experience with IaC tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Puppet.

· SDLC Tools: Strong experience with SDLC tools like SonarQube, Jenkins, Bitbucket, build automation tools like Maven and Gradle, and developer portal tools like Backstage.

· Additional Skills: Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, and Graph DBs like Neo4j.

· Coding Skills: Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable.

· Methodologies: Experience with Agile and CI/CD concepts.

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 talented employees — 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 every athenista feels 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 collaborative workspaces — 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, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.