Senior Member of Technical Staff - SMTS

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

About the Role:
Join our Engineering team as a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) and contribute to creating a thriving healthcare ecosystem. We're looking for a talented and experienced backend developer to help us build accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare solutions. This role primarily focuses on backend software development in a Java and AWS based microservice architecture. You'll work within an agile environment, collaborating closely with developers, Leads, Architects, and Product Owners.

The Team - Patient Experience (PEX) & Consumer Messaging:
The PEX subdivision empowers patients to manage their health and wellness while streamlining workflows for healthcare staff. The Notification Messaging team specifically builds and supports athenahealth's messaging infrastructure, delivering millions of personalized, multi-channel communications daily. This includes:

• Multi-Channel Communication:Systems for text, email, push notifications, and phone calls.
• Automated & Tailored Messaging:Software that automates crucial outreach like appointment reminders and population health notices.
• Actionable Results:Solutions driving patient action, leading to faster payments, preventative care, and better health management.

Our technology stack includes JavaScript, React, TypeScript for the front-end, NodeJS and Java for the backend, all within an AWS microservice-based architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Execution:Produce accurate, readable code adhering to technical design specifications. Deliver high-quality software components and services, ensuring security, performance, longevity, and integration testing. Accurately estimate development tasks, write, debug, and deploy code to production, and deliver timely fixes. Adhere to definition of done (DOD) including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, and documentation. Perform peer code reviews to maintain quality.
• Team Contributions:Master domain knowledge, serve as a technical point of contact, and take ownership of team deliverables post-release. Actively participate in scrum meetings (daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and volunteer for backlog work. Drive self-organization and actively mentor junior team members, supporting their technical growth and engagement.
• Cross-functional Coordination:Collaborate across Technology and Product organizations to align with business goals. Build strong relationships with team members and effectively share technical and business learnings with diverse audiences.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong understanding of data structures and OOPs concepts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of modern programming languages: Java, Spring, Hibernate, RESTful API.
• Experience doing code review for peers and mentoring junior devs.
• Hands-on experience with at least one relational database or NoSQL database.
• Ability and willingness to explore legacy and monolith systems.
• Ability to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to write technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable code.
• Availability for occasional after-hours production support or collaboration with USA-based colleagues.
• Experience in an Agile environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related STEM field.
• Ability to do technical design for product requirements.
• Experience building and deploying containerized applications on cloud platforms like AWS, with knowledge of microservices architecture, messaging systems (RabbitMQ / Kafka), and Docker.
• Ability to make independent decisions and drive towards optimal solutions.
• Ability to be flexible and to work independently as business and environment demands evolve
• Ability to work in a hybrid work environment, attending our office in-person at least one day per week
• Experience successfully influencing technical direction or decisions among peers.