Lead Software Engineer, Tech Standardization
Athenahealth22 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Guide and mentor a team of engineers while supporting hiring, onboarding, and team development.
- Define and execute the strategy for internal developer platform capabilities, developer productivity, standardization, and supported engineering practices.
- Lead modernization, standardization, migration, and related platform programs across engineering workflows and services.
- Deliver observability SDKs, instrumentation patterns, and telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and distributed tracing.
- Improve developer experience through paved paths, supported libraries, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and code-quality standards.
- Align platform programs with business requirements, compliance standards, delivery commitments, and engineering best practices.
- Partner with product managers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to align goals, communicate tradeoffs, and manage expectations.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical decisions as a visible U.S. time zone leader for technology standards.
- Drive practices involving testing, application resiliency, security, service ownership, incident learning, cloud adoption, automation, and AI-assisted engineering.
- Contribute to design discussions, technical reviews, roadmap prioritization, documentation, knowledge sharing, and cross-team coordination.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience leading engineers, technical projects, or engineering workstreams.
- Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, cloud enablement, or modernization efforts.
- Strong hands-on programming experience in Java and/or Python.
- Strong working knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale platform migration patterns.
- Experience engineering observability SDKs, instrumentation patterns, and telemetry integrations using Datadog, OpenTelemetry, logs, metrics, and traces.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation, security controls, and reliable software delivery practices.
- Experience working in regulated environments with availability, privacy, security, and compliance expectations.
- Strong coaching, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience using responsible AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity and quality.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement based in Boston, MA, with flexibility for work that does not require an office environment.
- 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.
- Company-sponsored book clubs, external speakers, hackathons, learning opportunities, and an inclusive workplace 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.