Software Engineer

Job Description

Who we are

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.

Our Tech and Tools

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails , Ember.js
• Postgres, Redis
• Puma, Sidekiq
• Heroku, AWS
• GitHub
• Asana, Slite, Slack, New Relic

The way we work

We look for problem solvers, not ticket takers. 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 100+ 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.

About You

You are highly self motivated and can work independently or partner closely with other engineers on a project. You have proven experience on commercial 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.

What you’ll be working on

• Assiting in the creation of intuitive web applications for a range of different end users and partners
• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining your application
• Owning front-end and back-end development for your application
• 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 the project
• Assisting with technical ideas and projects that focus on solving real world business challenges

Your Technical skills

You are a talented engineer with experience spanning some of the below requirements

• Software engineer with 3+ years of experience
• Experience developing web applications using an object orientated language like Ruby, being familiar with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML and CSS
• Experience working with Single Page Applications and Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js or (preferably) Ember.js
• Desirable: A knowledge of 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.

Your personal attributes

• 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

Our recruiting process

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

30mins of online cultural and cognitive assessments Chat with Head of Software Engineering to review role alignment Technical test followed by review/interview with peer group

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

Our shared values 

Consistently live and demonstrate Henry Schein One core values: 

• Mutuality 
• No politics 
• Each person as important as the next 
• Recognise creativity and encourage it 
• Open communication 
• Strong Ethics

Benefits we offer

• Highly competitive salary and benefits package
• Fully remote working
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work in a highly creative and dynamic work environment
• Autonomy and Responsibility for making decisions that will affect thousands of users.
• Ability to help us shape and evolve our culture
• Worldwide career progression opportunities

Henry Schein is committed to the principle of equal opportunities in employment in all spheres of its operation. Henry Schein UK Holdings strives to operate a policy of equal opportunity and not discriminate against any person gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law.