Staff Developer
Are you looking for an opportunity to use your software development skills to make a difference? 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
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
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.
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
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
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
- Knowledge of Univ/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
- Experience with object oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks
- Experience with iOS and Android environments
Behaviors & Abilities Required:
Are you looking for an opportunity to use your software development skills to make a difference? 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
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
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.
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
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
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
- Knowledge of Univ/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
- Experience with object oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks
- Experience with iOS and Android environments
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