Senior Software Engineer – Patient Portal and Payment

Posted:
8/5/2025, 7:34:26 AM

Location(s):
Texas, United States ⋅ Austin, Texas, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

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

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 Senior Software Engineer to join our team of developers building the next generation of Patient Portal and Payment applications. You are someone who demonstrates design & engineering excellence and has experience building full-stack web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator and nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare space.

The Team

The Financial teams within the Patient Portal and the Payment Organization provide a comprehensive suite of tools for patients to quickly and securely pay their providers for treatments and provide insight into their past payments.

Come join this innovative team that is moving quickly to meet the fast-growing market demand.

Job Responsibilities

  • Help come up with technical designs and solutions, write code to build features as part of an Agile team consisting of Engineers, a Scrum Master, a Product Owner, and an Experience Designer

  • Develop reliable, maintainable, scalable full stack web applications using latest technologies

  • Maintain, support, and enhance existing software applications using best practices

  • Create and maintain automated tests for software

  • Build and deploy applications using CI/CD tools

  • Contribute documentation to support design, development, and maintenance of software platform

  • Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions and promote productivity and effectiveness; take ownership of what the team builds and coordinate efforts to ensure proper completion

  • Participate in design and code reviews to ensure best practices are followed

  • Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert

  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

  • Ideally, 4+ years of software engineering experience with some product development expertise

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience

  • Web application development experience with focus on the backend using Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Typescript

  • Clear understanding of OOD/OOP fundamental concepts, design patterns, and best practices.

  • Strong problem-solving skills. Debugging and troubleshooting skills are a must.

  • Proficiency with compilers, debuggers, IDE’s (e.g. VS, IntelliJ, Eclipse)

  • Experience with REST or GraphQL API development

  • Experience with deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket and other source code repositories

  • Experience with Cloud based services such as AWS (e.g. ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3)

  • Experience testing application software using TDD/BDD, creation and maintenance of automated tests (e.g. JUnit, Cucumber, Playwright, Xray)

  • Experience in full life cycle Agile software development using Jira and Confluence

  • Must be detail oriented and a self-starter

  • Multi-tasking with good follow through skills

  • Good written, oral communication, and interpersonal skills

  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as alone to accomplish tasks without supervision

Excited if you have

  • Experience with leveraging AI tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, etc.)

  • Perl experience would be a bonus

  • Experience with Microservice architecture and development

  • Frontend development experience using HTML, CSS, frameworks such as React

  • SecDevOps skills in AWS environment (e.g. configuration mgmt, automation, security, performance monitoring, IaC, etc.)

About athenahealth

Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Our company culture: 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.

Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason 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 athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.

What we can do for you:

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative  workspaces  — some offices even welcome dogs.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment,full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued. 

Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers  

https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity

Athena Health

Website: https://www.athenahealth.com/

Headquarter Location: Watertown, Massachusetts, United States

Employee Count: 5001-10000

Year Founded: 1997

IPO Status: Delisted

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity

Industries: Enterprise Software ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Medical