Lead Software Engineer, Integration Platform
Company: athenahealth
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $143,000 - $243,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-22
About this role
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Role Summary
Build and lead the software systems that keep athenahealth’s integration platform reliable, scalable, and ready for growth. Based in Boston, MA as a hybrid role, this position combines hands-on technical leadership with architecture, delivery, and team mentorship to support secure and efficient healthcare data exchange. The role partners across engineering, product, operations, and security to improve platform performance, developer productivity, and operational resilience. This position reports to the Senior Engineering Manager.
Team Summary
The Integration Platform team provides a secure, reliable, and developer-friendly foundation for real-time and batch data exchange across athenahealth systems, customers, and partners. The team helps accelerate partner onboarding, reduce operational overhead, and support data integrity through consistent integration patterns, reusable tooling, and well-monitored interfaces. As a central capability, the team focuses on improving interface stability and performance, supporting regulatory and compliance requirements, streamlining payer and partner connectivity, and strengthening observability and operational tooling. The team works closely with product, security, operations, and partner engineering to reduce manual effort, improve release confidence, and shorten time to value for customers.
In this role, the Lead Software Engineer will shape technical direction for integration services and related platform components while contributing directly to software design, implementation, and delivery. The role includes guiding engineers through design reviews, supporting code quality and maintainability, and helping ensure systems are built for reliability, performance, and long-term supportability. The individual in this role will collaborate across functions to solve complex problems, i...