Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

How you’ll make an impact

We are looking for a talented 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.

About Us 

At Henry Schein One UK, we are a tech company with a mission to redefine dental care, creating a future where personalised, AI-driven treatment and intelligent practice management come together to enhance patient care and build a thriving dental practice.

 Celebrated as one of the ‘Sunday Times UK's Best Places to Work, our culture at Henry Schein One UK as an inclusive and forward-thinking company means we are committed to creating an environment that values diversity and flexibility and promotes equal opportunities for all individuals.

How we work 

We are problem solvers, not ticket takers. 

We champion creative problem-solving and value autonomy, trust, and impactful outcomes over rigid processes. Delivering improvements rapidly, we engage in iterative 6-week cycles, addressing user needs and enabling technical innovation - balancing technical debt, bugs, and team growth. We are a continuous delivery focused group, shipping changes to production 150+ times per month.

At our core is the customer. Every solution we deliver is crafted with customer success in mind, building relationships that go beyond transactions and ensuring that as team members, we all prioritise customer success in every aspect of our work. We build software that delivers value for our users and resist the urge to over-engineer our solutions. We let our users and the data tell us where we go next

Our Tech and tools

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

About You

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.

What you'll be doing

• 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 the project
• Communicating technical ideas and leading projects with a focus on solving real world business challenges

Your Technical skills

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

• Senior-level engineer with 5+ years of experience
• Strong at 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 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
• Desirable: Experience in leveraging AI tools to aid business processes.

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.

1. 20mins of online cultural and cognitive assessments

2. Chat with Software Engineering Manager to review role alignment

3. Technical test followed by review/interview with peer group

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

Our shared values 

Everyone at Henry Schein One is encouraged to live and demonstrate our core values:   

Community

• Each Person is as Important as the Next
• Open Communication
• Diversity & Inclusion 

Caring

• Corporate Citizenship
• Shared Success 

Career

• Ethics
• Recognise Creativity & Encourage it
• People are our Greatest Asset

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

Who would suit this role?

• An engineer who enjoys creating customer-centric, product-led software
• A self starter who can self-manage projects under minimal supervision
• An individual who is a great communicator and can coach/mentor others in the team
• An individual who has experience working in scaleups and understand the balance of investment vs value
• An individual who has an entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action and results.
• An individual who has passion for innovation, problem-solving, and optimizing system performance.

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.