Lead Member of Technical Staff

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. The Platform Services division within athenahealth is focused on building, enhancing, and maintaining foundational components that enable all development teams to deliver innovative healthcare solutions.

• Develop and maintain a high-performance, scalable GraphQL federation layer leveraging Apollo GraphQL Router and other related components.
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices.
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production and deliver timely fixes.
• Adhere to DoD (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 and follow athenahealth’s processes to ensure quality standards.
• Identify and implement the right tooling and libraries required for in-house and third-party development teams to adopt.
• Produce unambiguous, precise and comprehensive technical design specifications and documentations for federation architecture, API integrations, and service components.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system health and performance.
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimize GraphQL services and related backend APIs in distributed cloud environments.
• Continuously enhance service reliability, scalability, and maintainability through best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Be a significant voice contributing to the GraphQL Governance and stewardship committees.

• Strong knowledge of core web and cloud fundamentals: HTTP, DOM, REST, APIs, Public Cloud (AWS preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript and GraphQL.
• Desirable - a strong understanding of OOPS and current/experience in programming in Java/ Spring Framework.

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges

athenahealth is a progressive & innovative U.S. health-tech leader, delivering accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.