Senior Member of Technical Staff(Java Backend + Infrastructure)

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

The Company:

athenahealth is transforming healthcare by creating easy to use, ultra-powerful, cloud based tools which allow medical professionals to focus on what they do best – treat patients. Our product and services impact the practice of medicine for half of all physicians in the US. Our network covers over 46 million patient lives and 160 million visits per year.

Position Summary

The Clinicals Team

At athenahealth, we think healthcare providers deserve technology that lets them focus on what really matters: patient care. So we created it. Designed with input from our providers, our new, streamlined electronic health record (EHR) helps you document faster, easily meet quality program requirements, and removes distractions that get in the way of care.

Our athenaClinicals team builds code that matters, working on the beating heart of doctors’ workflows that is used by over 100,000 healthcare providers daily. We build the interface that makes the interactions between these providers and the electronic health record as seamless as possible, and elevates what the doctor needs to see, when they need to see it. This team is innovative, passionate, and driven by our mission to help make an impact.

We are looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff to join our Clinicals team within our Bangalore R&D division. Your job will be to build products and services for Clinicals. Help us reach our goal of becoming the healthcare backbone by enhancing our cloud-based EHR solution and leveraging the network effect of 85,400+ providers. Apply your technical skills towards allowing doctors to be doctors so that they are able to spend more time doing what they do best: provide patient care. But enough about us, let’s talk about you.

You are an engineer with experience building full stack web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator capable of quickly picking up the complicated healthcare domain. You are a tenacious yet nimble learner who demonstrates design and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Job Responsibilities

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

· Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, bug fixes, and documentation.

Typical Qualifications

· Ideally 3-8 years of progressive software development experience with significant product development expertise

· Good at problem solving and Designing enterprise applications.

· Expertise in Microservice design/development (Java, Spring framework) is required

· Knowledge of Infrastructure as code, CI, CD, and continuous monitoring etc.

· Experience in building, deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms like Azure AKS or aws ECS/EKS

· Familiarity Azure DevOps or Jenkins is ideal

· Hands on experience in at least one relational database technology and NOSQL db.

· Knowledge of data streaming services (Kafka) or aws kinesis

· Familiar with logging, instrumentation, and monitoring (LMM) tools

· Understanding of rules frameworks like JBoss drools or similar is plus.

· Experience in big data frameworks like Apache spark is plus

· Experience working with large existing codebase.

· Added Advantage: Full stack development experience.

Contributions to the Team

· Act as the subject matter expert for area of assignment

· 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 if required as assigned and  ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

Mentorship of Others

· Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team.

Behaviours & Abilities Required:

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

· Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels

· Always ensures data security

· Ability to prioritize both individual time and the time of the team

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

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

· Ability to collaborate with business owners to understand and refine business requirements

· Ability and willingness to demonstrate ownership of an area of athena’s technology

About athenahealth

Our Vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our Location: This role will be based in Bengaluru, India. Our Global Headquarters is located in Watertown, MA, just a few miles from Boston. We have two other India locations in Chennai and Pune.

Our Culture: At athenahealth, our employees (or “athenistas”) are committed to making healthcare smarter. Our success is dependent on the diversity, collective spirit, and contributions of our people, clients and partners. We value teamwork and believe that the strength of our team comes from supporting each other and leveraging our specialized skills. If you are looking for company that will enable you to work outside of your comfort zone to transform the healthcare ecosystem, athenahealth is the place for you.

Our Perks: Along with health & financial benefits, our athenistas are offered a variety of perks that promote employee wellbeing such as commuter support and collaborative workspaces.