Senior Engineering Manager, athenaPatient Platform

Archer is collaborating with athenahealth to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. This hybrid role based in Austin, TX leads engineering delivery for patient-facing digital experiences across web, iOS, and Android. The position is responsible for team leadership, delivery execution, technical partnership, and cross-functional alignment in a regulated healthcare environment, helping shape engineering operating practices, team metrics, and how the organization applies AI-assisted development. This role reports to the Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own engineering delivery across all teams or pods in the group, including prioritization, staffing, execution, and quality
• Manage engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, development planning, and team structure decisions
• Coach engineers and peers through regular feedback, technical discussion, and growth-focused leadership
• Partner with product, UX, architecture, security, and other engineering leaders to align priorities and deliver shared outcomes
• Guide technical direction by collaborating with architects and senior or principal engineers on design tradeoffs and implementation approach
• Define and track engineering excellence metrics that fit the team context, such as delivery predictability, quality, and team health
• Support adoption of AI-assisted development practices within the organization, including identifying practical ways to improve planning, delivery, and team effectiveness
• Contribute to incident reviews and help translate root-cause findings into architecture and process improvements
• Balance delivery commitments with management of technical debt, system reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Apply AI tools and AI-enabled workflows to improve planning, delivery, and team effectiveness, and help others use them appropriately in day-to-day engineering work
• Support onboarding and ramp-up for new team members and leaders
• Represent the team in cross-functional planning, roadmap discussions, and dependency management
• Participate in roadmap shaping and sequencing discussions with product and engineering partners
• Help establish operating norms for team communication, decision-making, and execution
• Review delivery risks and remove blockers that may affect team throughput or quality
• Encourage consistency in engineering practices across teams while respecting team-specific context
• Collaborate on capacity planning and staffing decisions as priorities shift
• Promote a learning environment that supports experimentation, reflection, and continuous improvement
• Contribute to documentation and process clarity where it improves execution and alignment

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 3–5+ years of people management experience in software engineering
• Experience owning hiring, performance management, coaching, and team structure decisions for engineering teams
• Proven record of leading product delivery teams and delivering measurable outcomes
• Experience managing multiple teams or pods simultaneously in a software development environment
• Experience working across product, design/UX, architecture, and partner engineering teams outside of a direct reporting line
• Technical fluency across a modern engineering stack, with the ability to participate in architecture and tradeoff discussions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
• Exposure to AI-assisted development or developer productivity tools is preferred

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with web, iOS, and Android delivery environments and the coordination required to support patient-facing experiences
• Experience in healthcare, patient-facing products, or other regulated environments
• Experience with Agile delivery, software delivery metrics, or platform-as-a-product thinking

Pay

Expected compensation: $156,000 - $266,000 base salary range. 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 the competitive Total Rewards package — depending on role eligibility, the company offers both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.

Benefits

• Health and financial benefits
• Commuter support
• Employee assistance programs
• Tuition assistance
• Employee resource groups
• Collaborative workspaces (some offices welcome dogs)
• Flexible work arrangements with hybrid model — in-office collaboration valued but not all work requires full-time office presence
• Company-sponsored events including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
• Learning culture with support of an engaged team and inclusive environment

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.