Be a part of the mission to #unbreakhealthcare!

At athenahealth, we believe that diverse teams are the strongest teams. We invite applicants of all genders, races, ethnicities, nationalities, ages, religions, sexual orientations, disability statuses, educational experiences, family situations, and socio-economic backgrounds.
 
As a member of athena's Release, Performance, and Reliability (RPR) team, you'll be creating and improving the processes, tools, and policies around athenahealth's software development life cycle (SDLC).  From how developers create their changes to facilitating the testing and deployment of these changes, you’ll be a force multiplier, helping your peer product developers deliver faster, more stable, and higher quality changes to our end users.
 
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 estimates story points; provides guidance to others as needed
• Drives the t-shirt sizing process, providing guidance to the team on sizing of epics and stories during the release planning stage
• 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 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 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
• 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:

• 8-10 years of experience in an engineering role
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Experience in developing CICD environments, or knowledge of containerization orchestration, or expertise in automated testing methodologies.
• Experience in breaking down systems into smaller, service oriented, microservices-driven components.
• Expertise in modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery
• Knowledge of Unix/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 front-end 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
• Ability to design and build iteratively, using agile methodologies
• 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