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Lead Frontend Software Engineer - PEX Platform
Athenahealth
Software Engineering
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Mar 11, 2025
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
We are looking for a Lead Frontend Software Engineer to join our development team that builds the next generation of patient-facing applications. You are a senior level developer who demonstrates design & engineering excellence and has experience working with full-stack web applications, preferably in public and private cloud environments. You are an excellent communicator and nimble learner who embraces the challenges and complexity of working in the healthcare space.
The Team
The Patient Experience Platform zone provides the essential services, tools, and standards that our patient-focused development teams depend on to address their unique domain-specific challenges. Within this zone, the Web Tools team is responsible for the Patient Experience frontend design system, shared components, and utilities that deliver engaging accessible, secure, and performant experiences to a broad spectrum of patient browsers and devices. Additionally, we play a vital role in establishing, maintaining, and promoting shared frontend standards, patterns, and best practices.
Job Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and contribute individually to code and systems design
- Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to define specifications and deliver solutions
- Take ownership of what the team builds and lead efforts to ensure proper adoption
- Develop domain expertise and share technical insights across the Engineering, UX, and Product organizations
- Stay up-to-date with the latest browser capabilities, industry best practices, and advances in AI
- Mentor, coach, advise, and lead engineering team members
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with significant product development expertise
- Extensive web application development experience with a focus on the frontend (e.g., React, MicroFrontend architecture)
- Extensive experience writing and debugging modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Strong focus on delivering high-quality code that is readable, scalable, performant, and accessible
- Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Experience leading team/technical projects including technical design, scoping, and estimation
- Strong communication skills with a variety of audiences
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with enterprise-level Design Systems
- Experience with build systems (e.g., Webpack, Vite) and CI/CD deployment pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
- Experience with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playwright)
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we 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.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And 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.
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.
athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity—that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law. We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process. If you are unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, please contact us at taoperations@athenahealth.com for assistance.