Senior Java Backend Developer - SMTS

Overview

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique values-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance. As evidence of our rapid growth and industry leadership, we were acquired by the world’s leading private equity firm “Bain Capital” for $17bn! and we have many new strategic product initiatives

We are headquartered in Boston , and our other offices are in Atlanta, Austin, Belfast, and Burlington. In India, we have offices in Bangalore, Pune, and Chennai.

Position Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff – SMTS to join our eventing team in platform zone within product engineering division in Bangalore R&D.

Team: This is a Eventing platform team works on the infrastructure, tooling, guidance necessary to build a near-time, scalable healthcare eventing platform and browser notifications for consistent information exchange between systems in order to drive better care coordination. You will be working on building a new platform that helps healthcare move fast and serve patients, providers and hospitals. This big data platform would involve processing billions of records of high throughput with low latency. This position involves building out core frameworks and tooling that are required by all other developers within athena to successfully build their product.

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 5 to 8 years of experience in an engineering role
• Experience in an Agile environment preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Strong software engineering skills and computer science experience
• Strong experience in Java, Data Structures and Algorithms
• Knowledge of object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech and streaming frameworks like Flink/Spark/Kafka Streams
• Exposure to one or more of messaging frameworks like Kafka/RabbitMQ and event driven architectures is desirable
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, Unix/Linux, SQL
• Experience with deploying and maintaining services in public cloud like AWS is a Plus

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Technical Execution

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
• Deliver customer value in the form of high-quality software components and services in adherence with policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing
• Estimate the size of development tasks in story points with the goal of 80% accuracy; begin to challenge others during estimation
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• 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

• Master the domain knowledge 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

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
• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences

About athenahealth

Here’s our v ision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19 th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.

Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare : It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas , as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal . We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: W e are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability .

Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility ( CSR ) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

What can we 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.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And 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 .

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility . W hile 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.