Senior Software Engineer; Ruby

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We are looking for a senior software engineer who is experienced at building applications for consumers and enterprises. You will play a leading role on our teams and have flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility to help design, build and maintain cloud-based applications that are used by thousands of dental professionals across the globe.

Henry Schein One provides leading online dental practice management software to thousands of dental professionals. We are shaping the future of how millions of patients interact with their dental practice. We aim to solve tough, real-world problems by continuously innovating in the product space. We are growing our team to allow us to expand the use of Dentally across the globe.

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js
• Heroku, AWS

We look for problem solvers, not ticket takers. We’re not about following strict processes or micromanaging. We operate on trust and focus on making a real impact. Our teams are mission focused and presented with problems, supported by context and research to help them deliver valuable solutions. We are a continuous delivery focused group, shipping changes to production 150+ times per month.

We plan our commitments on a quarterly basis and work in 6-week cycles that enable us to solve real problems for our users and their patients, while balancing technical debt, bugs, innovation and team growth. Our teams are directly responsible for making decisions that will improve oral care services for thousands of dental professionals and their patients.

Importantly, we keep things simple. We build software that delivers value for our users whether they are our customers, employees or other stakeholders. We make small changes that deliver business value, we test these with our users and iterate on the feedback. We resist the urge to over-engineer our solutions. We let our users and the data tell us where we go next.

You are highly self‑motivated and can work independently or partner closely with other engineers on a project. You have proven experience within leading roles on software engineering team projects. You are excited about building high quality products and want to own the product development lifecycle starting with the right design and development principles. You have strong communication and interpersonal skills. You enjoy solving problems and like to challenge yourself by building scalable and highly performant solutions.

• Creating intuitive web applications for a range of different end users and partners
• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining changes for your team’s area of ownership
• Designing, building and maintaining API infrastructure that allows for integration between different services and third‑party systems
• Working effectively with product managers, other engineers and business stakeholders on projects
• Communicating technical ideas and leading projects with a focus on solving real world business challenges

• Senior‑level engineer with 5+ years of experience
• Desirable: A robust knowledge of building and working with RESTful APIs
• Desirable:
  Experience integrating with internal and third‑party services
• Desirable: A knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Heroku, Azure
• Desirable:
  Knowledge of data migration and ETL practices

It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas - we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others.

• Great communication and collaboration skills working with other engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders
• Independent, proactive, and able to deliver production‑ready code with minimal guidance
• Empathetic and authentic
• Inquisitive and interested
• Driven Self‑motivated and diligent
• Optimistic and courageous

We try to make our process as simple as possible whilst giving you and us opportunities to learn about each other.

After this, we aim to make a decision within 24 hours

• Mutuality
• Each person as important as the next
• Recognise creativity and encourage it
• Strong Ethics

Not Applicable

Full-time

Information Technology

Software Development and Hospitals and Health Care