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Software Engineer - Payer Integration

Athenahealth

Boston, MA
Full Time
Mid Level
7 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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 Member of Technical Staff to join our Payer Integration team within our R&D, Platform & Data services subdivision, Integration Platform zone. Our zone vision is to maximize our network effect through efficient, effective, experience driven interoperability and navigate towards value-based care. Our team's vision is to improve the payer/partner-provider collaboration in healthcare ecosystem for value-based care and better patient experience. We are building a robust and scalable integration platform to enable bidirectional workflow between Payer/Partner and Provider groups to surface Payer/Partner's insights on patient's health condition. Your job will be to build enterprise quality applications/services hosted on cloud, with a focus on complex integration and stability at scale for Payer integration and payer platform solutions. You are a technologist with zeal to solve complex problems, have a growth mindset, are a fast learner, who is willing to work in fast paced environment, help us reach our goal of becoming the healthcare backbone by enhancing our cloud based EHR solution and leveraging the network effect of 100k+ providers. Apply your technical skills towards allowing doctors to be doctors so that they can spend more time doing what they do best: provide patient care.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop quality code in an agile approach adhering to the business requirements. Deploy the code to production and deliver timely fixes.
  • Write unit tests, continuously monitor, and maintain code quality by checking potential code bugs and vulnerabilities.
  • Build services that run on cloud and cater to billions of transaction volumes, per day.
  • Ensure high quality and optimum performance of integration systems by proactively identifying and proposing new, alternative solutions as appropriate.
  • Understand and follow coding conventions, architectural approaches, and best practices.
  • Adhere to the team's Definition of Done; perform peer code reviews to ensure quality standards.

Requirements

  • 2 to 4 years of experience in software development role.
  • Experience in an Agile environment preferred.
  • Significant software engineering skills (SDLC) with high quality and DevSecOps driven delivery.
  • Knowledge and expertise in programming languages such as Java and Spring Boot.
  • Knowledge of working with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Strong knowledge in REST API and SQL development.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with cloud-based application development.
  • Familiarity with healthcare integration standards and systems.

Qualifications

  • Educational background in computer science, software engineering, or related field (implied by experience requirements).

Benefits & Perks

  • Health and financial benefits.
  • Perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces.
  • Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
  • Sponsorship of events such as book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.
  • A company culture based on learning, support, and inclusivity.

Working at Athenahealth

Our talented employees— or athenistas, as we call ourselves— spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support. We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for all employees and communities.

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Job Details

Posted AtAug 14, 2025
SalaryCompetitive salary
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceMid Level

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About Athenahealth

Website

athenahealth.com

Company Size

5001-10000 employees

Location

Boston, MA

Industry

Software Publishers

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