athenahealth
Senior Engineering Manager, athenaCollector
Boston MA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA and focuses on shipping reliable, scalable software using Java, React, AWS, event-driven architecture, GraphQL, and SQL DBs.
- The work spans new feature delivery, re-platforming legacy components, and strengthening reliability through automation, observability, and rigorous operational practices.
- If you are passionate about combining strong technical depth with people leadership and you take pride in clear goals, accountable delivery, and continuous improvement, you'll help us advance healthcare technology in meaningful ways.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop software engineering teams to deliver high-quality services and user experiences that meet defined outcomes and OKRs (Objectives, Key results).
- Own delivery for multiple initiatives, set goals, clarify scope, align dependencies, and manage risk to achieve predictable, on-time results.
- Stay hands-on through architecture reviews, design spikes, code and pull-request reviews, and targeted contributions for critical paths.
- Guide the design and evolution of systems, promote patterns for scalability, reliability, and security.
- Lead technical deep dives to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems.
- Drive cost-aware architecture, capacity planning, and performance optimization in cloud technologies.
- Collaborate on vendor/tool evaluations and contract decisions in partnership with procurement and security.
- Partner with product, UX, and architecture to translate requirements into clear technical plans and incremental milestones.
- History of mentoring engineers and technical leads with effective performance management and career development.
- Success partnering with product, UX and architecture to prioritize roadmaps, sequence work, and manage dependencies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10-20 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, including people and team management.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Java and React in production systems, including code review and design leadership.
- Good experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), event-driven architecture, GraphQL, and SQL DBs.
Compensation
- $164,000 - $280,000 The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum.
- Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
Benefits
- Our company culture: Our talented employees - or athenistas, as we call ourselves - spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision.
- We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count.
- Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way.
- While 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.
- In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.
- Improve engineering practices for testing, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery), observability, incident response, and post-incident learning.
- Recruit, manage, and grow engineering talents, provide coaching, clear expectations, and feedback that supports career development and team health.
- Expected Education & Experience:
Company info
- Team Summary: As athenaCollector expands to more practices and specialties, we are investing in revenue cycle management solutions that improve billing speed and accuracy at scale.
- We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Visa & Work Authorization
- In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
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