Lead Member of Technical Staff – LMTS

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

Position Summary:

[Primary Function] 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 estimate the size of development tasks in story points challenge other during estimation
• Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services
• 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 their area of assignment
• Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
• 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
• Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
• 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:

• 8-12 years of experience in an engineering role.
• Hands-on experience in an Agile environment.
• Been a part of SDLC, deployment, and support of software projects.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent. . Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience.
• Working knowledge of modern programming languages such as Java, Spring Boot, Node JS, React, JavaScript/jQuery, and TypeScript.
• Working experience in architecting/developing solutions on AWS.
• Working knowledge of Version Control Management tools like Perforce and Git.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools like Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy, and Docker.
• Working experience with object-oriented programming, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech, and RESTful APIs.
• Demonstrated experience in leading or developing high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle.

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
• 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