We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our Integration Platform team, within our Platform Services Engineering organization. In Integration Platform, we enable providers to deliver safe care to patients when transitioning between health systems. But enough about us; lets talk about you.

As a Principal, you will combine the essentials of raw talent and a burning passion to succeed. You will need a history of working through complex business issues and leading successful development and deployment of large, complex projects.

You will work to develop extensions to the system architecture, work through design questions in close cooperation with business partners, write substantial amounts of code, and provide technical leadership to teams of developers and the surround organization. You are an excellent communicator that is capable of quickly picking up the complicated healthcare space.

As an engineer on Integration Platform team, you will have the opportunity to work on product components and workflows that enable the business processes, technical processes, and user workflows required to enable seamless access to patient data at critical moments in the client life cycle.

You are a tenacious, but nimble learner, who demonstrates design & engineering excellence.

The Team: This team enables the safe, correct bulk movement of millions of patients health data. You will build enterprise quality web applications, with a focus on stability at scale.

Job Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications with the appropriate detail. Lead design and development on an agile team of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and Experience Designer

• Collaborate, mentor and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization

• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert. Take ownership of what the team builds and oversee efforts across the team to ensure completion

Typical Qualifications

• Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience, including design and development, with 6-8 years of experience in an engineering leadership role

• Proficient in at least one modern programming language (Java, C++, Perl, Python, etc.)

• Solid relational databases, RDBMSs like Oracle, experience with SQL

• Familiarity with Unix/Linux, exposure to object-oriented OOD OOA

• We work in Agile environment, so any Agile experience CI/CD concepts is helpful

• Prior experience designing platform services, and/or developing system level software a plus

About athenahealth

• Our Vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

• Our Location: This role is based in Watertown, MA, just a few miles outside of Boston. Watertown is our Global Headquarters and our campus, the Arsenal on the Charles, is home to a number of restaurants, a local gym and large outdoor space. This office also has a cafeteria, coffee caf and food trucks that rotate every day.

• Our Culture: At athenahealth, our employees (or athenistas) are committed to making healthcare smarter. Our success is dependent on the diversity, collective spirit, and contributions of our people, clients and partners. We value teamwork and believe that the strength of our team comes from supporting each other and leveraging our specialized skills. If you are looking for company that will enable you to work outside of your comfort zone to transform the healthcare ecosystem, athenahealth is the place for you.

• Our Perks: Along with health & financial benefits, our athenistas are offered a variety of perks that promote employee wellbeing such as commuter support, collaborative workspaces and dog-friendly offices - just to name a few.