Senior Engineering Manager, athenaCollector

athenahealth • Boston, MA

9d • $164,000 - $280,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Engineering Manager leads and grows high-performing engineering teams while remaining hands-on with modern systems and services. The hybrid role is based in Boston, Massachusetts, and focuses on delivering reliable, scalable software using Java, React, AWS, event-driven architecture, GraphQL, and SQL databases. The manager partners with product and architecture teams to deliver measurable business outcomes and operational excellence.

Within athenaCollector, the role supports revenue cycle management solutions that improve billing speed and accuracy as the product expands to more practices and specialties. The manager builds and leads software development teams, drives modernization through cloud-native services, eventing, and APIs, and delivers solutions that improve performance, resilience, and maintainability. The work includes new feature delivery, re-platforming legacy components, and improving reliability through automation, observability, and rigorous operational practices.

The role owns delivery across multiple initiatives, contributes to system architecture and technical direction, and strengthens engineering practices. It also includes recruiting, coaching, and developing engineers; partnering with product, UX, and architecture; and integrating and evaluating agentic AI and AI-assisted tools in engineering workflows. The manager communicates progress, risks, and trade-offs and holds teams accountable to measurable goals and customer impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10–20 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership, including people and team management.
• Hands-on experience with Java and React in production systems, including code review and design leadership.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), event-driven architecture, GraphQL, and SQL databases.
• Track record delivering complex distributed systems with clear goals, measurable results, and reliable operations.
• Experience establishing CI/CD, automated testing, observability (metrics, logs, and traces), and incident management at scale.
• Experience mentoring engineers and technical leads, including performance management and career development.
• Experience partnering with product, UX, and architecture to prioritize roadmaps, sequence work, and manage dependencies.
• Experience evaluating and adopting AI-assisted and agentic tools to increase throughput and quality while maintaining safety and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop software engineering teams to deliver high-quality services and user experiences that meet defined outcomes and OKRs.
• Own delivery for multiple initiatives by setting goals, clarifying scope, aligning dependencies, managing risks, and achieving predictable, on-time results.
• Stay hands-on through architecture reviews, design spikes, code and pull-request reviews, and targeted contributions to critical paths.
• Guide system design and evolution, promoting patterns for scalability, reliability, and security.
• Improve engineering practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Partner with product, UX, and architecture to turn requirements into technical plans and incremental milestones.
• Recruit, manage, and grow engineering talent through coaching, clear expectations, and career-development feedback.
• Integrate agentic AI and AI-assisted tools into engineering workflows and evaluate their measurable impact.
• Track and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs, holding teams accountable to measurable goals and customer impact.
• Contribute to multi-year technical roadmaps and modernization strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Lead technical deep dives to diagnose and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems.
• Drive cost-aware architecture, capacity planning, and performance optimization in cloud technologies.
• Collaborate on vendor and tool evaluations and contract decisions with procurement and security.
• Participate in cross-functional planning and represent engineering in broader organizational initiatives.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Commuter support
• Employee assistance programs
• Tuition assistance
• Employee resource groups
• Collaborative workspaces; some offices welcome dogs
• Company-sponsored events, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
• Learning opportunities, an engaged team, and an inclusive work environment
• Annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans, depending on role eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior