athenahealth · 8 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer – athenaCollector
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$143K/yr - $243K/yr
6+ years expathenahealth is working to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their athenaCollector team, focusing on automating Revenue Cycle Management through technology solutions and microservices development.
Enterprise SoftwareHealth CareInformation TechnologyMedical
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
Cloud Deployment & Orchestration – 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
LLM Integration & Optimization – 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)
Qualification
Required
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
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
Cloud Deployment & Orchestration – 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
LLM Integration & Optimization – 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)
Preferred
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
Benefits
Commuter support
Employee assistance programs
Tuition assistance
Employee resource groups
Collaborative workspaces
Flexibility
Events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
Company
athenahealth
Athenahealth is a provider of medical practice automation and claims management software to medical groups and health systems.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$40MKey Investors
Venrock
2021-11-22Acquired
2017-05-18Post Ipo Equity
2007-09-20IPO
Leadership Team
Eddie Ross
Vice President, Payer
Anil Patil
Executive Director Engineering
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