Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Build and ship robust full‑stack systems that enable seamless, secure data exchange across athenahealth’s ecosystem. Based in Boston, MA as a hybrid role, this position combines backend engineering, frontend development, and AI model integration to deliver production‑ready features and services that improve operational efficiency and patient care.
Team summary
Provide a secure, reliable, and developer-friendly integration platform that enables real‑time and batch data exchange between athenahealth systems, customers, and partners — accelerating partner onboarding, reducing operational toil, and ensuring data integrity. The Integration Platform team is the central capability other product teams rely on for coordinated, scalable, and user-focused access to external data and for exchanging information across the healthcare ecosystem. The team’s mission includes reducing integration build effort by providing standard integration patterns and tooling, operating and monitoring interfaces at scale for high availability, and enabling both standard and custom integrations where client requirements demand them. Key goals include improving interface stability and performance, supporting regulatory and compliance requirements, accelerating payer and partner onboarding, and delivering operational tooling that improves run‑time observability and maintainability. The team collaborates closely with product, security, operations, and partner engineering to prioritize reliability, measurable outcomes, and reduced manual work and time to value for customers.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Design and develop backend services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot for high‑availability production systems.
Implement and maintain PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and performance optimizations.
Deploy, operate, and scale services on AWS (EC2) and container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes.
Build and integrate frontend interfaces using ReactJS to support integration management and tooling.
Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and observability.
Integrate AI models and GenAI APIs into product workflows, including RAG patterns, embeddings, and AI search optimization techniques.
Collaborate in Agile teams to deliver features, conduct code reviews, and maintain engineering best practices.
Additional Job Responsibilities
Prototype new integration patterns and evaluate third‑party partner solutions.
Contribute to architectural discussions and platform roadmap planning.
Monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and implement post‑incident improvements.
Produce runbooks and onboarding materials for operational teams and partners.
Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.
Participate in security and compliance assessments related to integrations.
Assist with performance testing and capacity planning for integration workloads.
Expected Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Java full‑stack development and strong software engineering fundamentals.
Extensive experience with Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, AWS (EC2), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GraphQL.
Hands‑on experience with ReactJS for building user interfaces.
Experience working in Agile development environments.
Experience integrating AI models and GenAI APIs; familiarity with RAG, embeddings, and AI search optimization techniques.
Familiarity with workflow engines such as Camunda or similar technologies is desirable.
Strong debugging, testing, and observability practices (unit/integration testing, logging, metrics).
Expected Compensation
$119,000 - $203,000The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
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
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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athenahealth Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
80 Guest Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02135
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