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.

About athenahealth:

athenahealth is a progressive and innovation-driven healthcare software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique value-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance.

We are headquartered in Boston, US, and our India offices are in Bengaluru, Chennai, and Pune.

Position Summary

We are looking for a Software Engineer (Senior Member of Technical Staff) to join the Athena Environments and Stability zone in our Chennai office. Our teams are organizational enablers and productivity multipliers in support of athenaOne products and services. We provide cost-optimized, technology appropriate, resilient, regulatory compliant product environments to serve our customers at maximum efficiency and satisfaction. This position is a part of our Tech Modernization initiative, with a focus on enabling the containerization of legacy applications and evolving how we deploy and operate our various environments.

But enough about us, let’s talk about you

You are a technologist with a zeal to solve complex problems. You possess a growth-oriented mindset and are a quick learner, looking to work in fast paced environment with total accountability. You possess good experience with large scale application development, build & deploy containerized applications and services on container platforms like Kubernetes and Docker. As a Senior Engineer on our team, you will play a crucial role in accelerating our efforts to migrate the existing athenaOne perl application into a modern, containerized world.

Job Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and deploy high-quality code to production as a full stack developer in an Agile team of diverse engineers Contribute to agile ceremonies & drive best practices to improve team performance. Drive self-organization; help determine how the team functions in collaboration with your peers Drive high customer satisfaction quotient through improved product velocity and stability contributing to appropriate tech /feature enhancements and reduction of tech debts. Serve as Scrum Master if required as assigned and ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

Qualifications:

Ideally 4 to 7 years of progressive software development experience with significant product development expertise Extensive knowledge of modern programming languages /application development frameworks such as: Java, JavaScript, Spring framework. Experience working with established large codebase, added Advantage: Full stack development experience. Good working experience with Perl/Python, SQL/PL-SQL, RDBMS & Unix scripting skills .Good working experience in building, deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms like AWS ECS/EKS and familiarity in AWS Cloud Infrastructure.  Familiarity with application build, deployment, monitoring tools & frameworks like CI/CD in Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog etc. Strong programming skills. You’re expected to be able to read and understand code as well as develop necessary tools.  Strong knowledge of any source control management tools.  Knowledge of DevSecOps practices like Infrastructure as code, CI, CD, and continuous monitoring etc Scripting experience with shell scripting in Linux.  Understands Agile concepts & participated in various agile ceremonies. Strong verbal and written communication skills.  Comfortable working within established large codebase and process frameworks.  Proactive and self-motivated – willing to improve on existing processes to allow for faster iterations.  Strong record of accomplishment of learning new tools and technologies.

About athenahealth

Here’s ourvision:  To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19thcentury arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant,allofathenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our10offices 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 andimplements products and services that support US healthcare: It’sour chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees — orathenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplishour 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 theirbestselves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enoughthatyourindividual contributionswill stand out— butlarge enoughto grow your career with ourresources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. OurathenaGivesplatform strives tosupport 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’sCorporate 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,athenistasenjoy perks specific to eachlocation, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance,employeeresource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, includingbook clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And weprovideathenistaswithacompany culturebased onlearning,the support of anengaged team,andan inclusive environment where all employees are valued. 

We alsoencourage a better work-life balance forathenistaswith our flexibility. Whilewe 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. 

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