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 Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will bring significant experience with you when you join athena. You will work alongside your technical team and product owners to deliver solid and secure code that solves business problems and enables business processes. You will be surrounded by strong technical leaders who will help you grow personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to mentor junior developers and to contribute to your team in other meaningful ways.
 
The right candidate should have a strong track record of writing solid code, should be able to illustrate a strong career growth potential, and should have a strong interest in mentorship and growth of the whole team.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
70% [Primary Function] Technical Execution

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail
• 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
• Estimate the size of development tasks in story points with the goal of 80% accuracy; begin to challenge others during estimation
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes
• 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

 
15% Contributions to the Team

• Master the domain knowledge for area of assignment
• 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 the 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

 
10% Mentorship of Others

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

 
5% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

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

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

• 4-6 years of experience in an engineering role
• Experience in an Agile environment preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
• Strong software engineering skills and computer science experience
• Knowledge of at least one modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
• Exposure to 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
• Finds creative way to execute even when there is no historical context or known path forward
• Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels
• Ability to analyze and assess potential software designs with an eye towards finding the best solution for the business
• Ability to identify alternative methods of solving problems and build efficiencies while doing so
• Proven track record of following through on commitments and owning the outcome
• Ability to assess situations or problems from multiple angles to understand complete picture