Lead Member of Technical Staff – LMTS
athenahealth
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Full-time
Posted Oct 04, 2025
Full-time
About the role
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Position Summary: Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
Responsibilities
- Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
- Deliver customer value in the form of high quality software components and services
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 401k matching
- Health insurance
- Flight privileges
About the Company
athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company that develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare. Our company culture might be our best feature.
Job Details
Salary Range
Salary not disclosed
Location
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Employment Type
Full-time
Original Posting
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