The Opportunity:Here at athenahealth, our developers are trying to evolve the technology of healthcare in America. By giving healthcare providers better solutions for managing the complex business of running a hospital or private practice, they can spend their time where it’s most needed: caring for patients.
In a large organization such as athenahealth, it is often difficult for developers to be able to quickly take advantage of the many innovations being introduced across many teams. Our Microservice Generation and SDK team is dedicated to providing the tools and SDKs that developers need to easily create new microservice applications and integrate them with the services offered on our platform.
If you are passionate about creating tools for developers, by developers, we need you at athenahealth!
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:40% [Primary Function] Technical Execution

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
• Ability to critique technical documentation as needed
• Deliver customer value in the form of high quality software components and services in adherence with RPR policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing
• Proactively Identifies and proposes new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results.
• Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points; challenge other during estimation
• Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• Participates in team member interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions.
• Scale systems to meet business demand
• Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR)
• Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices
• Perform peer code reviews in order to ensure quality standards.

25% Contributions to the Team

• Act as the subject matter expert for their area of assignment
• Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
• 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 as assigned and ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

20% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

• Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals
• Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
• Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members and business stakeholders
• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences

15% Mentorship of Others

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

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 6-8 years of experience in an engineering role

• Experience in an Agile environment preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience
• Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery. Experience with ES6/Node.js preferred
• Experience with microservice design principles preferred
• Experience with code generators (e.g. Yeoman) preferred
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
• Experience with object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks

Behaviors & 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
• 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

The Opportunity:Here at athenahealth, our developers are trying to evolve the technology of healthcare in America. By giving healthcare providers better solutions for managing the complex business of running a hospital or private practice, they can spend their time where it’s most needed: caring for patients.
In a large organization such as athenahealth, it is often difficult for developers to be able to quickly take advantage of the many innovations being introduced across many teams. Our Microservice Generation and SDK team is dedicated to providing the tools and SDKs that developers need to easily create new microservice applications and integrate them with the services offered on our platform.
If you are passionate about creating tools for developers, by developers, we need you at athenahealth!
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:40% [Primary Function] Technical Execution

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
• Ability to critique technical documentation as needed
• Deliver customer value in the form of high quality software components and services in adherence with RPR policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing
• Proactively Identifies and proposes new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results.
• Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points; challenge other during estimation
• Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• Participates in team member interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions.
• Scale systems to meet business demand
• Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR)
• Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices
• Perform peer code reviews in order to ensure quality standards.

25% Contributions to the Team

• Act as the subject matter expert for their area of assignment
• Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
• 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 as assigned and ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

20% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

• Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals
• Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
• Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members and business stakeholders
• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences

15% Mentorship of Others

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

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 6-8 years of experience in an engineering role

• Experience in an Agile environment preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience
• Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery. Experience with ES6/Node.js preferred
• Experience with microservice design principles preferred
• Experience with code generators (e.g. Yeoman) preferred
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
• Experience with object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks

Behaviors & 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
• 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