Senior Software Engineer, Specialties
Athenahealth2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and support scalable software for specialty clinical workflows.
- Build full-stack features across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data persistence, and cloud infrastructure.
- Own work throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirements refinement and technical design through production support.
- Develop domain knowledge of specialty clinical workflows to improve technical decisions, ticket triage, dependency mapping, and coordination.
- Build and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end automated tests and strengthen testing through AI-assisted test generation and coverage analysis.
- Use Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and similar tools for codebase exploration, implementation, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review.
- Critically evaluate AI-generated code, tests, designs, and recommendations, and mentor engineers on responsible AI-tool use.
- Explore technologies such as GraphQL and monitor application health and performance to support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience in a product development organization.
- Strong full-stack development experience covering backend services, frontend applications, APIs, data persistence, and production support.
- Solid backend development experience with Java or modern object-oriented programming languages.
- Hands-on experience with JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend architecture.
- Production experience with Perl and/or Python, including maintaining, extending, and modernizing existing applications.
- Experience designing, building, and supporting APIs using technologies such as REST and GraphQL.
- Experience with relational databases, data modeling, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience with distributed systems and monolithic, microservices, modern, and legacy production architectures.
Benefits
- Boston-based hybrid work arrangement with flexibility between office and remote work.
- Health and financial benefits, commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
- Access to learning opportunities, book clubs, external speakers, hackathons, and an inclusive company culture.
- Some offices welcome dogs.
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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.