Sobre esta vaga de Senior Cross-Platform Mobile Engineer na 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 Mobile Engineer will help design, build, and maintain athenahealth’s patient-facing mobile applications with a focus on native Android and iOS development. Based in Austin, TX, this is a hybrid role that requires strong technical ownership across mobile architecture, performance, accessibility, and secure handling of sensitive health data. This role partners closely with product, design, QA, backend, and clinical stakeholders to deliver reliable mobile experiences for a diverse patient population. This position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager.
Team Summary / Why Join Us
We are looking for a Senior Mobile Engineer with deep hands-on experience in Android development using Jetpack Compose and iOS development using Swift. In this small, collaborative team, you will have meaningful technical ownership across mobile architecture, product quality, and delivery for patient-facing applications.
This role is a strong opportunity for someone who enjoys solving practical mobile engineering challenges, partnering closely with product, design, QA, backend, and clinical stakeholders, and directly influencing both the mobile experience for patients and the way the team builds across platforms.
What Great Looks Like a Year In
You are contributing effectively across both Android and iOS, making sound technical decisions, and helping the team ship mobile features with strong quality and reliability. You are a trusted partner to product and design and have helped improve the team’s shared mobile development practices.
What Is Genuinely Hard About This Role
This role requires strong expertise in both Android and iOS development, which is uncommon and important to the work. You will be managing ownership across two native codebases while supporting a patient-facing product with high expectations for security, accessibility, and usability. Success in this role depends on clear communication, thoughtful technical judgment, and steady execution across evolving priorities.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain native Android applications using Jetpack Compose and iOS applications using Swift.
Own and evolve mobile architecture decisions that support scalability, maintainability, performance, security, accessibility, reliability, and delivery across both platforms.
Deliver secure, accessible, high-quality patient-facing mobile experiences.
Partner with product, design, QA, backend, and clinical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver releases, resolve technical issues, and improve product quality.
Conduct code reviews, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and contribute to engineering standards that improve consistency and maintainability.
Apply AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve productivity, explore implementation options, and support delivery efficiency.
Additional Job Responsibilities
Support release planning, issue triage, root-cause analysis, and technical problem solving in a small team environment.
Mentor teammates and share technical knowledge through code reviews, pairing, documentation, and informal knowledge sharing.
Help raise the team’s overall mobile engineering capability.
Help improve mobile development practices, tooling, release workflows, and cross-platform consistency.
Expected Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
4 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
Deep, hands-on experience developing Android applications with Jetpack Compose.
Deep, hands-on experience developing iOS applications with Swift.
Demonstrated experience owning mobile architecture decisions and leading technical direction on a project or team.
Strong understanding of mobile app performance, security, and accessibility best practices.
Experience working in a small, collaborative team where individual ownership and impact are high.
Strong communication skills and experience partnering with cross-functional, non-technical stakeholders.
Experience using AI-assisted coding tools and applying AI-driven workflows to improve engineering productivity.
Experience with healthcare data standards such as Health Level Seven (HL7) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), or experience in a regulated/compliance-driven environment, preferred.
Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for mobile release management, preferred.
Prior experience mentoring engineers or helping lead a small pod or team, preferred.
Expected Compensation
$113,000 - $193,000The 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
