Software Engineer, Data Pipelines

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

The platform team at athenahealth is looking for a software engineer to join their team. athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique “values-driven” employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance.

Position Summary

Do you have a passion for things related to data – ingestion, transformation, validation, quality? Do you believe that accurate and timely data delivery is critical to patient health outcomes? If so, here's your chance to join the Data Pipelines team at athenahealth. You will collaborate with talented engineers who are transforming healthcare data into actionable insights that empower clinicians, researchers, and healthcare administrators to deliver better care. 

The Team

The Data Pipelines team is responsible for building a scalable platform to safely ingest health data for millions of patients from across the healthcare ecosystem to power better outcomes for patients and doctors. The team will be focused on highly scalable data technologies in the Cloud to enable the delivery of insights and drive actions. 

The ideal candidate would be a motivated software engineer who has a passion for data and is willing to work collaboratively across teams and organizations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality code to production in an Agile team of data engineers, in a collaborative and high-performing environment
• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert, share business and technical insights with the team and broader engineering and product organization
• Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions that ultimately help improve health outcomes for patients
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues and support athenaOne customers
• Demonstrate ownership for what you and the team build and deploy in production

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems, or equivalent
• 2+ years of commercial software engineering experience-
• Experience in one or more modern programming languages such as: Python, Ruby or Java
• Familiarity with SQL, Unix/Linux command utilities, and RESTful API practices
• Experience with delivering products that leverage one or more of AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud Provider
• Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices; familiarity with unit and integration testing and documentation
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, resilient, performant, scalable, and readable
• Strong communication skills to work across geographies, and a record of engineering achievement, code ownership, and customer orientation
• Proven track record of learning and implementing new technologies
• Familiarity with Healthcare Data Exchange – HL7/FHIR is a plus

About athenahealth

Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.  

What’s unique about our locations? 
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together. 
 
Our company culture might be our best feature. 
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.  

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work. 

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability. 
 
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.   

What can we 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 collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.  

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And 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.  

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 environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation. 

athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at taoperations@athenahealth.com for assistance.

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity