Software Engineering Manager, Medications

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

Role Summary

Lead one to two software engineering teams in the Medication Management zone, with responsibility for both customer-reported issue resolution and feature delivery. This hybrid role, based in Boston, MA, is an opportunity to shape product delivery, strengthen team performance, and partner across product, design, and other functions to deliver reliable, high-impact outcomes in a collaborative environment.

Team Summary

The Medication Management zone builds mission-critical solutions used by over 170,000 healthcare providers every day. We empower providers to make informed, personalized clinical treatment decisions in partnership with each patient, regarding their medications, vaccines, and medical supplies. The zone owns critical parts of the Athenahealth EMR application and operates in an agile environment focused on incremental, customer-centered value delivery.

We are a mission-driven team committed to improving patient safety, streamlining clinical workflows, and supporting continuous learning and innovation. Team members are encouraged to share ideas, strengthen engineering practices, and contribute to the long-term success of the products we build.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Lead one to two high performing software engineering teams, including a team responsible for triaging, prioritizing, fixing and resolving customer reported issues, and a team responsible for feature development and delivery

• Partner with product managers and user experience designers to define priorities, scope work, and establish realistic delivery timelines

• Drive technical planning, execution, and delivery across assigned workstreams, ensuring timely completion while maintaining quality

• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements when product issues arise

• Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, goal setting, career growth support, and individualized development opportunities

• Evaluate engineering processes and recommend improvements that strengthen planning, delivery, and operational performance

• Champion and apply AI tools and AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering productivity, support faster problem solving, and help the team identify practical ways AI can strengthen day-to-day engineering work.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to use Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and other LLM-powered tools to reduce repetitive engineering work, accelerate codebase understanding, improve test coverage, and shorten development feedback cycles

• Participate in technical design reviews and planning discussions to help shape implementation approaches

• Help refine team practices for estimation, prioritization, and sprint execution

• Assist in creating a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement

Expected Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

• 6+ years of combined experience in engineering and people management, with responsibility for product delivery and team development

• Demonstrated ability to balance priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment

• Experience with enterprise monolith applications as well as Cloud based enterprise applications

• Experience leading teams and working effectively with cross-functional stakeholders

Expected Compensation

$143,000 - $243,000

The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

About Us

United by our mission and driven by our entrepreneurial spirit, our work at athenahealth is collaborative, transformative, and above all, it’s meaningful. Our employees take pride in using technology and data-driven insights to inspire changes that will make the U.S. healthcare system better for everyone, including your friends, family and maybe even you.

Notice to Job Seekers/Job Candidates: Recruitment Fraud Alert

Please be aware of questionable job offers that are not affiliated with athenahealth.

athenahealth has been made aware of unauthorized career opportunities offered by individuals posing as representatives of larger U.S. companies, including athenahealth. The fictitious jobs are advertised on employment-search websites, such as Indeed.com and Craigslist.com, and prospective employees are required to share their personal and financial information (e.g. credit card, bank information), provide copies of their government-issued identification, and/or send money for application fees, processing charges or work permits.

The victims who are told they are "hired" are often instructed to deposit a check (which is later returned as fraudulent) into their own account and to forward overpayment to individuals - usually via wire transfer.

Important information for job seekers:

• athenahealth has a formal application process and we do not request you to interview on a Google Hangout or via text messaging.
• athenahealth will never request money for the opportunity to apply or work for athenahealth.
• athenathealth does not require completion of tax forms, bank account or credit card information as part of the recruiting process.

If you feel that you have been a victim of such a scam, please send an email to: askhr@athenahealth.com