Principal Member of Technical Staff

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

Position Summary: This position requires experience in designing, debugging, and maintaining practice management applications, in both local and hosted environments, with experience handling large scale projects and customer escalations. This individual would be instrumental in coaching and mentoring junior staff while aiding in continuous process improvement methodology and tools.

Additionally, it would be desirable if the candidate has experience in fine-tuning pre-trained machine learning models, building and training traditional/deep learning models, deploying models at scale, optimising algorithms, and integrating them into production systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions that enhance our products and services.

You are Technologists with zeal to solve complex problems, growth mindset, fast learners who are willing to work in fast paced environment with total accountability.

Our Collector R&D teams are building new and exciting revenue cycle services for athenahealth customers. We work on solving complex business problems for a wide range of stakeholders covering everyone from customers to our internal technology enabled services teams and our multiple BPO vendors. Our work is quite complex and requires the ability to conceptualize and implement workflows that manage large volumes of claim resolution work. This work can be manually completed by our BPO partners or automated to increase overall system productivity.

Responsibilities

· Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, scalable and highly performant code following best software engineering practices.

· Performance Monitoring: Implement monitoring and evaluation metrics to assess model performance and make improvements as needed.

· Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and software engineers to define project requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.

· Model Fine-Tuning: Optimize and fine-tune pre-trained machine learning models to meet specific business needs, ensuring improved accuracy and performance.

· Model Building: Training and deploying traditional/deep learning models and integrate them into production systems.

· Data Engineering: Collaborate with product to understand data, analyse, project, preprocess, clean and transform for the problem to be solved

· Research and Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in software engineering and in the area of artificial intelligence (desirable).

· Perform peer code reviews to ensure quality standards and sustainability.

· Critique technical documentation as needed.

· Promote Knowledge Center Service (KCS) adoption.

· Deliver customer value in the form of high-quality software solutions and services in adherence with programming standards.

· Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert across multiple modules; facilitate the sharing of business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.

· Lead efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness of open incidents/requests.

· Collaborate, mentor, and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness, share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.

Education & Experience Required:

• 12-18 years of experience in an engineering role.

• Experience in an Agile environment. Been part of SDLC, deployment & support of software projects.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience.

• Full stack development with both frontend and backend experience.

• Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: Java, Spring Boot, Node JS, React, JavaScript/jQuery, TypeScript.

• Knowledge of datastores such as OpenSearch, PostgreSQL RDS, DynamoDB, S3.

• Experience architecting/developing solutions on AWS.

• Knowledge of Version control management tools like Perforce & Git.

• Knowledge of Devops tools like Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy, Docker.

• Experience with object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech and RESTful APIs.

• Demonstrated experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle.

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.