Lead Member of Technical Staff

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

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 athenahealth's 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 :

Skills Required

Kubernetes, Spring Framework, Java, Oops, Typescript, Rest Apis, Aws, Node.js, Graphql, Docker, Javascript