Principal Member of Technical Staff - Software Development

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary:
Join athenahealth’s Revenue Cycle Management R&D organization as a Principal Member of Technical Staff on the Posting team in Chennai. In this role, you will design and build software that supports payment posting, reconciliation, transaction processing, and other core revenue workflows. You will partner with product, engineering, operations, and domain experts to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions that improve financial operations for healthcare organizations. This role reports to the engineering leader for the Posting team.

About the Team:
The Posting team supports athenaCollector, a cloud-based revenue cycle platform that helps providers manage the claims and payment lifecycle more efficiently. The team builds software that automates posting and reconciliation workflows, routes exceptions, and reduces manual effort through better categorization and prioritization of work. The team works across engineering, product, and operations to solve complex financial workflow challenges while maintaining strong security and compliance standards. This work helps healthcare organizations improve reimbursement processes and focus more time on patient care.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Design and build software solutions that support the Posting team’s revenue cycle workflows.
• Develop services and applications that handle payments, posting, reconciliation, transaction processing, and financial data movement.
• Translate business requirements and user stories into technical designs and working software.
• Deliver software that meets standards for security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and testing.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency through automation, data analysis, and practical use of AI-enabled tools where appropriate.
• Build solutions that improve categorization, routing, and reduction of manual operational work.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Estimate development effort and contribute effectively in Agile team planning and delivery.
• Follow and influence coding standards, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, operations, and other stakeholders to solve complex revenue cycle problems.

Expected Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12–18 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering and computer science fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, Perl, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, including development, deployment, and production support.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux, SQL, NoSQL, and related technologies.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and relational database design for enterprise applications.
• Experience designing and developing solutions on AWS.
• Experience building and operating applications in AWS environments using ECS and/or EKS.
• Familiarity with version control and collaboration tools such as Git and Bitbucket.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, distributed systems, relational databases, and REST APIs.
• Demonstrated experience developing high-quality, enterprise-scale software products using a structured development process.
• Familiarity with modern AI/ML concepts and interest in applying them to workflow automation, categorization, and operational efficiency is preferred.