About this Senior Software Engineer, Front End Rearchitecture role at athenahealth
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Role Summary: The Senior Software Engineer will craft high-quality, modern web interfaces that directly support clinical workflows and enhance the user experience across key healthcare applications. This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA, and is focused primarily on building scalable, maintainable frontend systems using the latest React and TypeScript patterns. This position reports to a Principal Member of Technical Staff.
Team Summary: The Clinicals Front End Rearchitecture Initiative is an engineering-led effort to replace a fragmented set of frontend architectures across Clinicals applications with a single, modern, React-based foundation. Today, these applications are built on a mix of technologies and patterns that create friction for both developers and users — this initiative is designed to resolve that by establishing one consistent, performant, and scalable frontend platform.
A significant part of this effort involves standardizing how frontend applications access data, replacing the current home-grown Data Broker with GraphQL to create cleaner, more predictable data patterns. The team is also focused on building a shared library of reusable components and establishing frontend conventions that other teams across Clinicals can adopt. Node.js plays a supporting role in tooling, build pipelines, and lightweight service layers that complement the frontend stack.
The result will be a unified, developer-friendly platform that reduces complexity, improves application performance, and positions Clinicals for sustainable long-term growth. This team values close collaboration with product, design, and backend engineering peers, and is looking for engineers who care deeply about code quality, consistency, and building interfaces that work well for real users.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain modern, performant frontend applications using JavaScript, React.js, and TypeScript.
- Build reusable, accessible UI components and establish shared front-end patterns that promote consistency across Clinicals applications.
- Integrate frontend interfaces with backend services through GraphQL APIs and RESTful endpoints.
- Leverage Node.js to support frontend build tooling, server-side rendering, or lightweight middleware services as needed.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate requirements into reliable, user-centered interfaces.
- Analyze existing frontend codebases and contribute to migration efforts toward a unified React-based architecture.
- Troubleshoot and resolve UI defects, performance bottlenecks, and cross-browser compatibility issues.
- Write clean, testable frontend code and actively participate in code reviews, unit testing, and end-to-end testing practices.
- Use AI-assisted development tools — such as those supporting code suggestion, automated testing, or debugging — to improve code quality and delivery speed, while applying sound engineering judgment to all final decisions.
- Contribute to frontend engineering documentation, standards, and shared practices that support team-wide consistency and velocity.
Additional Job Responsibilities:
- Support frontend deployment and release activities using tools such as Jenkins or Harness.
- Collaborate with backend engineers on API contracts and data integration patterns involving Oracle or other data systems.
- Work with existing scripts or utilities written in Perl when frontend tooling or integration requires it.
- Contribute to cloud-based frontend deployment and hosting activities on AWS (Amazon Web Services).
- Participate in sprint planning, technical design reviews, and engineering estimation activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve frontend performance, accessibility, and overall developer experience.
- Support onboarding and knowledge sharing for other frontend engineers joining the team.
- Help document component libraries, architectural decisions, and engineering conventions.
Expected Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 to 6 years of professional frontend software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript in production frontend environments.
- Hands-on experience building component-driven web applications with React.js.
- Working knowledge of Node.js for build tooling, server-side rendering, or frontend-adjacent service development.
- Familiarity with GraphQL for client-side data fetching and API integration.
- Exposure to Perl, Oracle, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Jenkins, and/or Harness is a plus.
- Experience writing maintainable, testable frontend code within an Agile software development lifecycle.
- Solid understanding of browser behavior, web performance optimization, and frontend debugging tools.
- Ability to collaborate across functional teams including design, product, and backend engineering in a hybrid work environment.
Expected Compensation
$119,000 - $203,000The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
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, athenahealth enables employees 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
