Manager Engineering

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Position Summary: Lead a team that builds and improves scalable cloud-based services that support athenahealth’s revenue cycle workflows. In this role, you will partner closely with product leadership, engineering peers, and operational stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and high-performing solutions.

This position is based in Chennai and follows an on-site/hybrid/remote work model as defined by the hiring team. This role reports to the Engineering leader for the Collector organization. About the Team: The Collector team builds enterprise services and tools that support complex revenue cycle operations for athenahealth customers.

The team works across product, platform, internal technology-enabled services, and business process outsourcing partners to design workflows that can support high-volume claim resolution work. The team uses technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and cloud-based infrastructure to deliver secure and scalable solutions. The work combines technical depth with cross-functional collaboration to improve operational efficiency and system reliability.

Essential Job Responsibilities: Hire, coach, and develop engineering team members to support both technical growth and career development. Define and maintain technical standards, engineering practices, and team processes that support reliable delivery. Guide architecture and design decisions for scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems.

Partner with product and business stakeholders to define roadmap priorities, project scope, and delivery plans. Lead delivery of full-stack web applications and cloud-enabled services across the software development lifecycle. Coordinate testing, quality checks, and issue resolution to improve product stability and performance.

Collaborate with engineering, product, platform, and operations partners to resolve technical issues and remove delivery blockers. Support compliance with applicable security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in healthcare software development. Lead agile planning and delivery practices, including sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.

Use AI-enabled tools and data-informed analysis to improve planning, code review, testing, or workflow efficiency, and help the team apply these tools responsibly in day-to-day engineering work. Additional Job Responsibilities: Contribute to release planning and production readiness activities. Support incident response and problem resolution when production issues arise.

Participate in hiring, interviewing, and team staffing discussions. Evaluate opportunities to automate repetitive engineering or operational tasks. Provide input on platform improvements and technical debt reduction.

Share knowledge and best practices across engineering teams. Support special projects and initiatives as needed. Expected Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 10–15 years of experience leading engineering teams in a technical environment.

Experience developing and supporting enterprise-scale software products. Track record of coaching engineers and supporting both technical and professional growth. Experience working in an Agile environment preferred.

Strong software engineering background with experience in object-oriented programming and modern web application development. Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, JavaScript/jQuery, and TypeScript preferred. Experience designing or developing cloud-based solutions, preferably on AWS.

Experience with data stores and services such as OpenSearch, PostgreSQL RDS, DynamoDB, and S3 preferred. Familiarity with DevOps and delivery tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy, Docker, Perforce, and Git preferred. Experience with REST APIs, distributed systems, and relational database technologies.

Knowledge of data warehousing or analytics tools such as Snowflake is a plus. 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