Senior Backend Engineer
Athenahealth Technology Private Limited
Work from Office
Full Time
Min. 4 yearsJob Description
Senior Backend Engineer
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary: We’re looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) in Bangalore to develop scalable backend services, integrations and APIs using TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Perl, GraphQL, REST APIs, and cloud-native engineering practices. This role will contribute to building scalable clinical data platforms that bring information from multiple backend systems into reliable, reusable APIs for product teams.
The role combines strong backend/platform engineering expertise with AI-assisted engineering practices, including the use of LLMs, AI coding tools, prompt patterns, retrieval-based approaches, and human-in-the-loop validation to improve software development, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and developer productivity.
About the Team: The Clinical Foundations zone builds core services and graph capabilities that enable clinical applications to access consistent, timely, and trusted clinical data. The team works across multiple clinical and workflow domains, including: Patient, Encounter, Orders, Results, Documents, Care Plan, Medication, Questionnaire, Task & Related clinical workflow domains
As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will contribute to the engineering foundations and execution details that help clinical data workflows perform well, scale effectively, and remain dependable in production.
You will work closely with product, design, QA, architecture, platform, and engineering teams to translate requirements into well-structured software solutions while supporting issue resolution, code quality, AI-assisted engineering practices, and incremental platform improvements.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Develop backend services and integrations using TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Perl, GraphQL, REST APIs, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Design and build GraphQL APIs, including schemas, resolvers, data sources, and federated subgraph services, to make clinical data available to product teams in a reliable and scalable way.
- Integrate with clinical source systems, including FHIR APIs, microservices, event streams, and internal data platforms.
- Apply AI engineering practices to improve code understanding, schema mapping, test generation, documentation, troubleshooting, and developer productivity.
- Evaluate and use LLMs, AI coding tools, prompt patterns, retrieval-based approaches, and human-in-the-loop validation where appropriate.
- Optimize backend data access patterns for latency, batching, caching, error handling, reliability, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, platform, QA, and application teams to define stable API contracts and deliver high-quality software solutions.
- Write and maintain unit, integration, regression, and contract tests to support safe delivery and production stability.
- Support deployment, monitoring, debugging, and incident response for services running in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Contribute to incremental improvements in the clinical data platform, backend services, APIs, and engineering foundations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production and application issues while maintaining system reliability and performance.
- Participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and solution design with cross-functional engineering partners.
- Support code quality, maintainability, scalability, and production readiness across backend services.
- Help establish and maintain reliable and reusable API contracts for product teams.
- Contribute to AI-assisted engineering practices and identify opportunities to improve developer productivity through AI and automation.
- Work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate business and product requirements into well-structured software solutions.
Expected Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4–6 years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend or platform engineering depth.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Perl, GraphQL, REST APIs, Oracle, and jOOQ.
- Strong experience in production service development, backend systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Experience designing and developing GraphQL schemas, resolvers, data sources, and federated subgraph services.
- Experience with healthcare data, FHIR, clinical workflows, or large-scale data integration is strongly preferred.
- Practical experience using AI tools or LLM-based workflows for software engineering, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, or operational support.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, event streams, and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of backend performance and reliability concepts, including latency, batching, caching, error handling, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
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
Experience Level
Senior LevelJob role
Job requirements
About company
Similar jobs you can apply for
Telecalling / BPO / TelesalesCustomer Support Executive
Victa Earlyjobs Technologies Private LimitedWork from OfficeFull TimeAny experience
Good (Intermediate / Advanced) EnglishLoan Officer
Wisedrive Technologies Private LimitedWork from OfficeFull TimeMin. 2 yearsGood (Intermediate / Advanced) English
Customer Onboarding Executive - Voice / Blended
Glympse Human Capital ServicesWork from OfficeFull TimeMin. 6 monthsGood (Intermediate / Advanced) English
Accountant
Shaping MetalsWork from OfficeFull TimeMin. 1 yearBasic EnglishAccountant
Human Capital SolutionsWork from OfficeFull TimeMin. 2 yearsGood (Intermediate / Advanced) EnglishEV 2 Wheeler Technician (Bangalore)
2Coms Consulting Pvt Ltd.
Field JobFull TimeMin. 1 yearYou can expect a minimum salary of 0 INR. The salary offered will depend on your skills, experience and performance in the interview.
The candidate should have completed the required education and people who have 4 to 6 years are eligible to apply for this job. You can apply for more jobs in Bengaluru/Bangalore to get hired quickly.
The candidate should have sound communication skills and sound communication skills for this job.
Both Male and Female candidates can apply for this job.
No, it's not a work from home job and can't be done online. You can explore and apply for other work from home jobs in Bengaluru/Bangalore at apna.
No work-related deposit needs to be made during your employment with the company.
Go to the apna app and apply for this job. Click on the apply button and call HR directly to schedule your interview.
The last date to apply for this job is . For more details, download apna app and find Full Time jobs in Bengaluru/Bangalore . Through apna, you can find jobs in 64 cities across India. Join NOW!