athenahealth - Lead Software Engineer - Frontend & Backend Technologies

The Platform Services division within athenahealth is focused on building, enhancing, and maintaining foundational components that enable all development teams to deliver innovative healthcare solutions.

As a key member of our platform team managing Federated GraphQL Services, you will work on developing a scalable and resilient GraphQL layer that acts as an abstraction between front-end and back-end APIs, including an Apollo GraphQL router and the required services.

You would have a focus of what would take to develop scalable and low latent systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead technical excellence in a fast-paced environment, delivering high-impact APIs used by in-org Dev teams.

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer with a deep understanding of web fundamentals and distributed systems, a hands-on approach with modern backend and frontend technologies, and the passion to solve complex problems with innovative solutions.

This role demands strong technical expertise, ownership, and a growth mindset.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to :

Technical Execution :

• Develop and maintain a high-performance, scalable GraphQL federation layer leveraging Apollo GraphQL Router and other related components.
• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectures, and best practices.
• Write, debug, and deploy code to production and deliver timely fixes.
• Adhere to DoD (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 and follow athenahealths processes to ensure quality standards.
• Identify and implement the right tooling and libraries required for in-house and third-party development teams to adopt.
• Produce unambiguous, precise and comprehensive technical design specifications and documentations for federation architecture, API integrations, and service components.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system health and performance.
• Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimize GraphQL services and related backend APIs in distributed cloud environments.
• Continuously enhance service reliability, scalability, and maintainability through best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
• Be a significant voice contributing to the GraphQL Governance and stewardship committees.

Contributions to the Team :

Cross-Functional Coordination and Communication :

Education, Experience, & Skills Required :

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