Senior Backend Software Engineer - Reference Architecture

Member of Technical Staff - MTS Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Member of Technical Staff – Reference Architecture Position Summary: Help shape the engineering foundations that allow product teams to build secure, scalable, and maintainable software faster. In this role, you will develop backend services, APIs, microservices, and reusable platform patterns that improve consistency and reduce duplication across teams. You will work in a hybrid environment in Bangalore , partnering with engineering, platform, security, DevOps, and product teams. This role reports to the Reference Architecture Manager . About the Team: The Reference Architecture team focuses on creating practical engineering standards, reusable assets, and implementation guidance that support modern software delivery. The team works across platform engineering, architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, security, and developer experience to build assets teams can adopt directly. Their work includes service templates, API standards, Kubernetes deployment guidance, documentation, and developer workflows that support efficient delivery. The team partners closely with application engineering teams to help solve common technical problems once and reuse the solution broadly. Essential Job Responsibilities: Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, REST APIs, microservices, and reusable platform components. Develop and standardize reference implementations that help engineering teams deliver applications and services more efficiently. Create practical patterns for service development, API design, Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, cloud integration, observability, and operational readiness. Write code that is reliable, scalable, maintainable, testable, and easy for others to understand. Contribute to technical design documents, implementation plans, and engineering documentation. Follow coding standards, architecture guidelines, security practices, and quality expectations. Participate in code reviews, design discussions, planning sessions, team standups, reviews, and retrospectives. Debug, deploy, and support production code, including timely resolution of defects and operational issues. Partner with product engineering teams to understand adoption needs and improve reference architecture assets. Use AI tools to support coding, debugging, documentation, testing, and learning new development approaches as they become available, while applying judgment to review and validate outputs before use. Identify and recommend tools, frameworks, or patterns that improve developer experience, platform consistency, and engineering efficiency. Additional Job Responsibilities: Support adoption of team standards and reusable assets across engineering groups. Contribute to continuous improvement of team processes and development practices. Share knowledge through documentation, demos, or informal technical guidance. Help evaluate emerging technologies that may improve platform reliability or developer productivity. Expected Education & Experience: 2 to 4 years of software engineering experience in backend development, distributed systems, or related application development. Hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot. Working knowledge of Python. Experience building microservices, REST APIs, and backend services. Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, preferably PostgreSQL, NoSQL, and related tools and technologies. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments. Experience delivering software on one or more cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices, including design, documentation, unit testing, and integration testing. Experience with DevOps principles and CI/CD tools such as Harness, Jenkins, Git, and Bitbucket. Ability to work collaboratively across engineering, platform, product, security, and operations teams. Ability to write code that is technically sound, resilient, performant, scalable, and readable. Preferred: Experience building AI agents, tool-using workflows, or retrieval-augmented generation solutions. Preferred: Experience using AI-assisted developer tools for debugging, documentation, testing, or productivity. Preferred: Experience building reusable engineering templates, service blueprints, starter kits, or internal developer platform assets. Preferred: Exposure to observability, API gateways, service reliability, infrastructure-as-code, secure software supply chain, or developer experience platforms. 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 Experience Level Senior Level