Lead Software Engineer athenaCollector

Athenahealth • Boston, MA

137d

About The Position

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our athenaCollector team. In athenaCollector we build technology solutions that automate Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). This Collector team is implementing the underlying medical back-office processes to automate and integrate the unique claims cycle requirements. The athenaCollector product is a critical part of the athenaOne platform, which helps our medical provider clients manage their business and revenue cycle (RCM), automating claims and billing for well over $200 billion in client revenue.

Requirements

• 6+ years of overall experience with significant software engineering skills and computer science experience.
• Experience working in an Agile environment at an enterprise level.
• Hands-on experience in both Java and Python based technologies, relational databases.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, RESTful API, Spring Boot framework, Kubernetes, AWS and broad technologies; experience in developing decoupled applications is preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• 1 or more years of experience in designing and developing GenAI based enterprise-grade cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of scalable AI architectures and security best practices.
• Knowledge of Perl is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications with appropriate detail.
• Lead design and development on an agile team of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and Experience Designer.
• Collaborate, mentor, and advise team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; share business and technical insights with the broader engineering and product organization.
• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert.
• Take ownership of what the team builds and oversee efforts across the team to ensure completion.
• Deploy AI-powered applications using AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and develop Python based Agentic AI applications.
• Implement RAG-based retrieval and Agentic AI workflows.
• Integrate OpenAI, Bard, Claude, Azure OpenAI APIs.
• Optimize API calls using temperature, top-p, max tokens and reduce hallucinations using embedding-based retrieval (FAISS, Pinecone).

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Commuter support
• Employee assistance programs
• Tuition assistance
• Employee resource groups
• Collaborative workspaces
• Flexibility in work-life balance
• Sponsorship of events including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree