Job description
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Role Summary
The Lead Member of Technical Staff will serve as a technical anchor for a team building modern, React-based clinical web applications that support healthcare providers and improve patient care delivery. This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA, and combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership — guiding architectural decisions, mentoring team members, and ensuring high standards of quality and consistency across the frontend platform. This position reports to a Principal Member of Technical Staff.
Team Summary
The Clinicals Front End Rearchitecture Initiative is an engineering-led program aimed at replacing a fragmented set of frontend architectures across Clinicals applications with a single, cohesive, React-based platform. Today, these applications are built on a variety of technologies and patterns that create complexity for developers and inconsistency for users. This initiative is designed to address that directly — establishing a unified foundation that makes it easier to build, maintain, and scale clinical software over time.
A core part of this effort is modernizing how frontend applications access and consume data. The team is replacing the current home-grown Data Broker with GraphQL, introducing cleaner and more predictable data contracts between the frontend and backend systems. Node.js plays an important role in supporting build tooling, server-side rendering, and lightweight service layers that are integral to the overall frontend architecture.
Beyond the technical work, this initiative is also about establishing engineering culture and shared practices — reusable component libraries, front-end conventions, testing standards, and documentation that other engineering teams across Clinicals can adopt. As a Lead on this team, this person will help shape those practices and guide other engineers in applying them effectively. The end result will be a performant, developer-friendly, and sustainable platform that positions Clinicals for long-term growth — and this role is central to making that vision a reality.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of frontend features and platform components using JavaScript, React.js, and TypeScript, ensuring alignment with architecture standards.
- Guide and mentor other frontend engineers on implementation practices, code quality, and shared conventions across the team.
- Define and evolve frontend architecture patterns, component libraries, and engineering standards that support a scalable, unified codebase.
- Integrate frontend applications with backend services via GraphQL APIs and RESTful endpoints, establishing consistent data-access patterns.
- Leverage Node.js to support build tooling, server-side rendering, and frontend-adjacent service development within the platform stack.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to evaluate requirements, shape technical direction, and deliver user-centered solutions.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted development tools — such as those that support code review, test generation, or debugging — into the team's workflow, and help teammates adopt practices that improve productivity while maintaining code quality and judgment.
- Drive code review practices, testing standards, and deployment readiness to maintain a high bar for frontend software quality.
- Analyze existing Clinicals frontend codebases, identify areas for improvement, and lead migration efforts toward the modernized React-based architecture.
- Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams to align on shared APIs, data contracts, deployment pipelines, and platform dependencies.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Support frontend build, release, and deployment activities using Jenkins or Harness continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Collaborate with backend and data engineers on system-level integrations involving Oracle databases or supporting data services.
- Work with existing utilities or automation scripts written in Perl when integration or tooling requirements call for it.
- Contribute to cloud-based deployment and hosting activities on AWS (Amazon Web Services), including familiarity with relevant services for frontend infrastructure.
- Participate in sprint planning, technical roadmap discussions, and engineering capacity estimation.
- Represent frontend engineering perspectives in cross-team design reviews and architectural planning sessions.
- Identify and champion opportunities to improve frontend performance, accessibility, and overall developer experience.
- Support onboarding of new engineers by sharing knowledge of the platform, codebase, and team practices.
- Help maintain and grow internal documentation for component libraries, architectural decisions, and engineering conventions.
- Monitor engineering health across the team and surface blockers, risks, or technical debt that may impact delivery.
Expected Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of professional frontend software development experience, including time spent in a technical leadership or lead engineering role.
- Deep proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript in large-scale, production frontend environments.
- Extensive experience building component-driven web applications using React.js, including state management, performance optimization, and design system integration.
- Solid working knowledge of Node.js for build tooling, server-side rendering, or frontend-adjacent service development.
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL for client-side data fetching, API design, and integration with backend services.
- Exposure to Perl, Oracle, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Jenkins, and/or Harness is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering standards within a team.
- Experience working within an Agile software development lifecycle, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering, product, and design teams in a hybrid work environment.
- Expected Compensation $143,000 - $243,000 The 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 https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity