Senior Software Engineer, Integrations

About the position

At Commure + Athelas, the Integration Team plays a crucial role in supporting the company's core products-Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) and Scribe-by ensuring seamless data flow between our platform and over 40 Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). This team is responsible for fetching vital Encounter and Appointment data from multiple EMRs and, when necessary, writing data back to these systems. The team's work ensures the interoperability and smooth exchange of healthcare data via HL7, enabling healthcare providers to deliver more efficient and accurate care while streamlining administrative processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex integration solutions between our platform and third-party healthcare systems (EHRs, insurance providers, etc.) while ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, and healthcare) to gather integration requirements, define technical approaches, and prioritize tasks based on business needs.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the integration platform by proposing and implementing improvements to architecture, tools, and technologies.
• Take ownership of end-to-end integration workflows, from design and development through to deployment and post-launch monitoring.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, troubleshoot integration issues, and proactively improve the reliability of integrations in production environments.
• Ensure all integration work adheres to healthcare compliance and security standards (e.g., HIPAA, HL7, FHIR) and collaborate with security teams to protect sensitive data.
• Work closely with junior engineers to provide technical guidance and mentorship, helping them solve problems and ensuring high-quality code standards are followed.
• Drive the implementation of best practices for integration development, including testing, error handling, version control, and continuous integration.
• Collaborate with DevOps and QA teams to implement monitoring and alerting systems that ensure integration reliability and system health in production.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends in healthcare technology, integration patterns, and emerging tools, continuously suggesting and applying innovations that can improve system performance and integration capabilities.
• Participate in agile development cycles, contributing to sprint planning, retrospectives, and maintaining a collaborative and efficient working environment.

Requirements

• [Required] Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
• 3+ years of professional software development industry experience
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Python, TypeScript, or similar) and frameworks
• Experience with the entire modern backend development stack, including but not limited to Git, GCP / AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational and non-relational DBs, and monitoring/alerting tools
• Proven track record of designing and implementing end-to-end solutions and making successful architectural decisions
• Experience mentoring other engineers and leveling up an engineering organization
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Openness to occasional travel

Benefits

• Flexible PTO (pending specific geographical locations)
• Medical, dental, vision, maternity and paternity leave