Senior Software Developer

athenahealth is a leading provider of network-enabled services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems. For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com.

• Actively learning the product/service space from team members and stakeholders.
• Applying rigorous engineering practices to solving the complex problems presented.
• Understanding athena’s coding conventions and development policies and applying them to their work and in their codechecks of others work.
• Understanding the system and devising solid test plans for code written.
• Teaching others on what they have learned, including writing appropriate technical documentation.
• Providing status on development tasks to supervisors and stakeholders
• Participate in developing and promoting best practices for development such as writing ARB policies and learning about and participating in production issue reviews.

• Excellent understanding of complex computer science engineering problems
• Substantial expertise in a programming language such as C/C#/C++, Perl, Java, or Python
• Preferred skills include previous web development experience, UNIX/Linux familiarity, Perl, JavaScript, RDBMS experience (particularly with Oracle)
• Bachelor Degree or equivalent
• 5-8 years of professional experience
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders