Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
We are looking for a Senior Manager of Engineering to join our Data and Ecosystem Platform team. As a manager, you will partner with Product to drive the success and evolution of our API platform. You are committed to developing your engineers and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, results, and high-performing teams.
You are passionate about building inclusive and outcome-focused engineering teams. You are committed to supporting and developing your engineers to successful team outcomes. You are energized by collaborating with Product and User Experience teams. You love digging into meaty, complex technical problems and finding ways to iteratively deliver improvements in service of a long-term vision. You bring curiosity, empathy, and an open mind to everything you do. If that sounds like you, and you’re interested in driving a forward-leaning approach to healthcare, we’d love you to join the team.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership and Management
- Oversee and manage multiple cross-functional engineering teams responsible for building solutions for our API clients and partners.
- Provide strategic direction, technical guidance, and mentorship to team members to ensure efficient and effective delivery.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Implement effective processes and best practices for project planning, task prioritization, and resource allocation.
- Identify and address any team-related challenges or bottlenecks and implement solutions to improve team performance.
- Recruit and retain the best available talent, adjusting roles and staffing to meet project needs and providing regular team coaching and feedback. Build highly engaged teams through relationship building, contextualizing your team’s role in the business to your group, and servant leadership.
Modernization and Transformation
- Lead the design and implementation of a modernized platform leveraging Java and React technologies.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, product managers, and cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Implement robust testing strategies, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing to ensure the quality and reliability of the modernized workflows.
- Maintain knowledge of product architecture, dependencies, technical concerns such as rollout strategies, performance, and scalability to represent engineering in discussions and drive decision making.
Operational Support and Maintenance
- Establish and maintain effective communication channels with the operations and support teams to address any production issues or incidents.
- Implement monitoring and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve any performance or reliability concerns.
- Support the production environment as a top priority. Ensure system uptime and usability expectations are met, and production defects are managed in a timeframe appropriate to the company impact.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- Stay up-to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in software engineering and modernization.
- Identify opportunities for further optimization, automation, and innovation within the engineering teams and the overall technology landscape.
- Encourage a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing among the teams, fostering the adoption of new tools, frameworks, and methodologies.
- Collaborate with the broader organization to align the engineering roadmap with the company’s strategic objectives and long-term vision
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 2+ years in managerial role.
- Demonstrated success in leading development team on cloud-based platforms (e.g., AWS)
- Experience in API-driven and micro-service architectures.
- Familiarity with programming languages such as: Java, React.js and JavaScript/Typescript
- Experience in testing, production system monitoring, incident management and observability.
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Proficient in Agile/Scrum methodologies and project management practices.
- Experience managing features through the software development lifecycle from requirements to release and sustaining.
Preferred qualifications
- Computer Science or Engineering degree
- Experience in distributed systems, cloud-based architecture, and highly available systems with 5+ years in SW engineering capacity with web technologies and programming languages such as Java, React.js and JavaScript/Typescript.
- Previous experience as a software developer.
- 3+ years managing software development teams, with at least some experience concurrently managing multiple teams.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
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athenahealth Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
80 Guest Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02135
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