The Opportunity:
 
Our vision is to make healthcare work like it should by removing the frustration, redundancies, and safety issues created in today’s error-prone world of printing, faxing, hand-delivery, and manual re-entry of clinical documentation.
 
Our mission is to improve patient care by enabling communication with myriad internal and external systems, including medical monitoring devices, various independent API consumers, and other Electronic Health Record (EHR) software suites.
 
Athena’s Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) division owns the strategically important data communication formats used by our world class healthcare information backbone. The EDI teams utilize governmental and industry standards to communicate a patient’s critical data as she transitions from general practitioner to specialist to hospital, across the spectrum of care.
 
 
Position Summary:
As a Lead Member of Technical Staff, you will bring significant experience with you when you join athena. While the role is primarily focused on technical execution, you will also mentor junior developers and generally contribute to the growth of the team as you progress into a subject matter expert and a technical leader within athena.
 
The right candidate should be have strong a track record of working alongside technical teams and product owners to deliver solid and secure code that solves business problems and enables business processes.
 
 
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
35% [Primary Function] Technical Execution

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
• Critique technical documentation as needed
• Deliver customer value in the form of high quality software components and services in adherence with RPR policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing
• Proactively identify and proposes new, alternative technology in order to create scalable implementations and achieve results
• Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points; challenge other during estimation
• Provide high level T-shirt sizing for the work required to build smaller software components and services
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices; hold other members of the team accountable for doing so
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• Participates in team member interview process as needed; influences final hiring decisions
• Scale systems to meet business demand
• Deploy systems to meet availability targets (HA/DR)
• Adhere to DOD (story 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 in order to ensure quality standards

 
30% Contributions to the Team

• Act as the subject matter expert for area of assignment
• Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
• Take ownership of what the team builds after the release; consider customer adoption as success criteria
• Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance
• Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery; Coordinate efforts across te team to ensure completion and effectiveness
• Participate and contribute to scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up, sprint planning, readouts and retrospectives
• Drive self-organization; help determine how the team functions in collaboration with your peers
• Serve as Scrum Master as assigned and ensure high team effectiveness and efficiency

 
20% Mentorship of Others

• Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team

 
15% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

• Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals
• Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
• Builds strong relationships with cross-functional team members and business stakeholders
• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approach for different audiences

 
Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 6-8 years of experience in an engineering role
• Experience in an Agile environment preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Significant software engineering skills and computer science experience
• Knowledge of modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery
• Knowledge of Univ/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
• Experience with object oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks

 
Behaviors & Abilities Required:

• Ability to learn and adapt in a fast paced environment, while producing quality code
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable
• Ability to make decisions independently, driving towards the right solution
• Finds creative way to execute even when there is no historical context or known path forward
• Ability to analyze and assess potential software designs with an eye towards finding the best solution for the business
• Ability to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills that encourage growth for more junior members