Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all.
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 Principal Engineer to join our Clinicals product team within our Medication Management organization. Our team builds code that matters delivering workflows that are used by over 100000 healthcare providers daily. We empower providers to make informed personalized clinical treatment decisions in partnership with each patient regarding their medications vaccines and medical supplies.
JobResponsibilities
You are a technical leader and hands on developer with experience building full stack web applications preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator who is capable of quickly picking up the complicated healthcare space. You are a tenacious but nimble learner who demonstrates design & engineering excellence.
Lead design and develop code on an agile team fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continual improvement
Deliver high-quality software that is secure performant scalable maintainable and reliable
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 coordinate efforts across the teams to ensure proper completion
Collaborate with product management user experience patient safety and other engineering teams to determine best strategy forward balancing competing needs of the business and identifying and managing risks
POC work as necessary to get ahead of the team on new projects
Comfortable working across a variety of technologies and infrastructure including (Perl Java React GraphQL Python Oracle DB private cloud AWS microservices.) and evaluating the best options for each project
Production monitoring using dashboards such as Grafana and Datadog
Quickly respond to production incidents to support business critical services
Evaluate opportunities for ML and AI as part of each project
Champion security best practices
Typical Qualifications
12-16 years of experience in an engineering role
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
Expertise in one or more modern programming languages UI frameworks and relational databases
Proven track record of leading engineering teams in successful product delivery
Self-driven with the ability to persevere through complex problems
Experience working with (generative) AI and ML is a strong plus
Experience working on high-volume large datasets is highly desirable
In-depth experience with system architecture design patterns web technologies UI frameworks
A strong understanding of relational database technologies distributed computing and RESTful APIs
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 talentedemployees 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. Thats 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 collaborativeworkspaces 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 environmentfull-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools athenahealthenablesemployees 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:
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