Senior Member of Technical Staff

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

External Job Title:  SMTS (Senior Member Technical Staff)

Internal Job Title:  SMTS (Senior Member Technical Staff)

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our athenaCollector team.

In athenaCollector we build technology solutions that automate (RCM) Revenue Cycle Management. This Collector team is implementing the underlying medical back-office processes to automate and integrate the unique claims cycle requirements.
The successful candidate will have proven experience in building teams and attracting talent, developing career paths, and fostering a culture of innovation in similar high performing teams.

The Team : The athenaCollector product builds a critical part of the athenaOne platform, which helps our medical provider clients manage their business and revenue cycle (RCM), automating claims and billing for well over $200 billion in client revenue. This Zone is committed building new and exciting capabilities to improve how we help health practices collect the right patient insurance, understand eligibility benefits, improve cost transparency, drive effective billing workflows and offer flexible payment solutions. This team is focused on making the billing and payment process simple, transparent and flexible for both healthcare practices and their patients.

You will work with other teams to ensure a coherent, forward looking product features.You will work with product owners and user experience designers to design and build solutions. Ultimately your work will focus on improving corporate performance, product performance and clinical outcomes.

Education, Experience, & Skills Required: 

4-8 years of experience in an engineering role

Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot. 

Experience in Cloud Devops preferably AWS

Exposure to relational database technologies, RESTful APIand Modern JS frameworks (React JS)

Experience in an Agile environment preferred

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Behaviors & Abilities Required: 

Ability to learn and adapt in a fast paced environment, while producing quality code

Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels

Ability to prioritize both individual time and the time of the team

Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable

Ability to collaborate with business owners to understand and refine business requirements

Ability and willingness to demonstrate ownership of an area of athena’s technology

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

[Primary Function] Technical Execution

Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail

Deliver customer value in the form of high quality software components and services in adherence with RPR policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing

Estimate the size of development tasks in story points with the goal of 80% accuracy; begin to challenge others during estimation

Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices

Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes

Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices

Perform peer code reviews in order to ensure quality standards.

Contributions to the Team

Master the domain knowledge for area of assignment

Take ownership of what the team builds after the release; consider customer adoption as success criteria

Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance

Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery; Coordinate efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness

Participate and contribute to scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospectives

Drive self-organization; help determine how the team functions in collaboration with your peers

Cross functional Coordination and Communication

Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals

Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members

Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences

Mentorship of Others

Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team.

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.