Principal Member of Technical Staff- Full Stack

Job Description

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

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 Engineer to join our Clinicals product team within our Medication Management organization. Our team builds code that matters, delivering workflows that are used by over 100,000 healthcare providers daily. We empower providers to make informed, personalized clinical treatment decisions in partnership with each patient, regarding their medications, vaccines, and medical supplies.

JobResponsibilities

You are a technical leader and hands on developer with experience building full stack web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator who is capable of quickly picking up the complicated healthcare space. You are a tenacious, but nimble learner, who demonstrates design & engineering excellence.

- Lead, design and develop code on an agile team, fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continual improvement
- Deliver high-quality software that is secure, performant, scalable, maintainable, and reliable
- Collaborate, mentor and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization
- Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert. Take ownership of what the team builds and coordinate efforts across the teams to ensure proper completion
- Collaborate with product management, user experience, patient safety and other engineering teams to determine best strategy forward, balancing competing needs of the business and identifying and managing risks
- POC work as necessary to get ahead of the team on new projects
- Comfortable working across a variety of technologies and infrastructure including (Perl, Java, React, GraphQL, Node.js, Python, Oracle DB, private cloud, AWS microservices.), and evaluating the best options for each project
- Production monitoring using dashboards such as Grafana and Datadog
- Quickly respond to production incidents to support business critical services
- Evaluate opportunities for ML and AI as part of each project
- Champion security best practices

Typical Qualifications

- 12-16 years of experience in an engineering role
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Expertise in one or more modern programming languages, UI frameworks, and relational databases
- Proven track record of leading engineering teams in successful product delivery
- Self-driven with the ability to persevere through complex problems
- Experience working with (generative) AI and ML is a strong plus
- Experience working on high-volume, large datasets is highly desirable
- In-depth experience with system architecture, design patterns, web technologies, UI frameworks
- A strong understanding of relational database technologies, distributed computing, and RESTful APIs

About Athenahealth

Heres our vision:To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Whats unique about our locations

From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealths 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&apost take ourselves too seriously. But our work Thats another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: Its our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talentedemployees 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 everyathenistafeels 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 athenahealths Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, weve 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 collaborativeworkspaces 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, athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

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