Lead Software Engineer, Conversational Agent Platform
Athenahealth2 days ago
Base Salary
$136k - $232k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain full-stack conversational AI platform capabilities using React, TypeScript, Java, and Spring Boot.
- Design scalable APIs, user interfaces, and backend services for configuring, managing, and evaluating conversational agents.
- Build PostgreSQL and pgvector data-access workflows for retrieval, similarity search, and AI-related use cases.
- Use Redis for distributed caching, state management, performance optimization, and application reliability.
- Contribute to architecture decisions involving service boundaries, APIs, observability, deployment, and operational resilience.
- Deploy and operate containerized services using Kubernetes and Helm.
- Implement telemetry, tracing, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring with OpenTelemetry.
- Evaluate AI development workflows and tools such as LangChain4j.
- Participate in design and code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, proof-of-concept work, and release improvements.
- Define engineering standards and reusable platform patterns while mentoring other engineers and partnering with product and design teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8–15 years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack application development.
- Strong production experience with React and TypeScript.
- Production backend development experience with Java and Spring Boot, including WebFlux or other reactive programming patterns.
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs and services in cloud-native environments.
- Hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including pgvector or other vector-search approaches.
- Experience using Redis for caching, performance optimization, or distributed application support.
- Experience deploying services on Kubernetes and managing releases with Helm.
- Experience implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
- Experience with AI-enabled development or application workflows, including LangChain4j or similar frameworks.
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid environment with engineering, product, and design partners.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Austin, Texas.
- Health and financial benefits, commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
- Potential eligibility for annual discretionary bonuses, variable compensation, and equity plans.
- Flexible work practices supporting work-life balance and digital collaboration.
- Company-sponsored book clubs, external speakers, hackathons, learning opportunities, and an inclusive culture.
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About Athenahealth
Athenahealth builds cloud-based electronic health records, practice management, revenue cycle, and patient engagement software for medical practices and health systems, often paired with technology-enabled billing services. The company sells its platform on a subscription basis and supports high-volume clinical and financial workflows across its network. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Boston, it is privately held under Bain Capital.