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.
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production and deliver timely fixes.
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best 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

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.