Front-End Software Engineer

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.

Role summary:
Help build modern, scalable web experiences that support athenahealth’s marketing web properties. This role focuses on front-end software development using React and related web technologies, with responsibility for designing, building, testing, and maintaining high-quality user-facing applications and integrations. This position is based in Bangalore - Whitefield, India. This person will work as part of the Web Platform team and report to the appropriate engineering leader.

Team summary:
The Web Platform team is responsible for managing athenahealth’s marketing web properties and supporting the web experiences that connect customers, prospects, and partners with athenahealth solutions. The team works across a modern web technology stack and partners closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable, maintainable, and performant digital experiences.

This team supports front-end architecture, application development, API integrations, web performance, accessibility, analytics implementation, and ongoing platform improvements. Team members collaborate with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable and effective web experiences while maintaining coding standards, development best practices, and long-term maintainability.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in all phases of Agile software development, including design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Develop and maintain front-end applications using React, JavaScript, and related web technologies.
• Build prototypes and production-ready solutions for new web capabilities and enhancements.
• Collaborate with backend engineering teams on API design, integration patterns, and implementation.
• Follow coding conventions, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices to support maintainable and scalable solutions.
• Optimize code for quality, performance, maintainability, and user experience.
• Write unit tests and contribute to test coverage to improve application reliability and reduce defects.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Document implementation details and technical decisions to support knowledge sharing and maintainability.
• Use AI tools, where appropriate, to improve productivity in front-end development tasks such as debugging, code exploration, documentation drafting, and learning new workflows, while reviewing outputs for accuracy, security, and relevance.

Additional Job Responsibilities:

• Support SEO, accessibility, and analytics implementation across React-based web applications.
• Assist in evaluating and applying front-end build tools and modern development workflows.
• Contribute to improving development standards, engineering practices, and release quality.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support delivery of web platform enhancements.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve front-end issues in development and production environments.
• Support performance tuning and optimization of web applications and related assets.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing across the team through reviews, discussions, and documentation.
• Work with cloud-based services and deployment environments as needed to support application delivery.

Expected Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering or front-end development role.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS, SCSS, or related CSS frameworks.
• Experience with React and related libraries such as React Router.
• Knowledge of SEO, accessibility, and analytics integration in React applications.
• Experience writing unit tests with meaningful code coverage.
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, and NPM.
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tooling.
• Exposure to AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, S3, and CloudFront is helpful.

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