Lead 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: LMTS (Lead Member Technical Staff)

Internal Job Title: LMTS (Lead Member Technical Staff)

Cohort: Manager Individual Contributor

The Opportunity:  We, from the Payment space within Athena is redesigning our Payment experience moving towards a highly efficient, scalable and adaptable system that can potentially integrate with multiple Payment gateways and provide a holistic experience for our customers.

Position Summary: We are looking for an experienced backend engineer with the ability to help build a strong culture as the team builds new microservices in a modern infrastructure. You will work with product owners and user experience designers to design and build solutions while mentoring and coaching developers. Experience with Java, microservices, AWS Cloud, SQL databases is preferred. 

Education, Experience, & Skills Required: 

8-11 years of experience in an engineering role

Strong Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: Java, Spring, RESTful API

Knowledge of SQL and other DB technologies.

Knowledge of front-end frameworks like React.

Experience with deploying and maintaining services in public cloud like AWS

Knowledge of microservices architecture, messaging system (RabbitMQ or Kafka) and docker is good to have.

Experience in an Agile environment preferred

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience

Behaviors & Abilities Required: 

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

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

Ability to make decisions independently, driving towards the right solution

Finds creative way to execute even when there is no historical context or known path forward

Ability to analyze and assess potential software designs with an eye towards finding the best solution for the business

Ability to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances

Strong mentoring and coaching skills that encourage growth for more junior members

Ensure best engineering practices for high quality code

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Technical Execution

Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail

Ability to critique technical documentation as needed

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

Proactively Identifies and proposes new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results.

Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points; challenge other during estimation

Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services

Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so

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

Participates in team member interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions.

Scale systems to meet business demand

Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR)

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

Act as the subject matter expert for their area of assignment

Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team

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

Serve as Scrum Master as assigned and ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

Cross functional Coordination and Communication

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

Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions

Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members and business stakeholders

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. 

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