The Senior Software Engineer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains software applications. This includes being involved in understanding the business impact of the necessary work and creating solutions to realize that impact by leading research, design, documentation, and modification of software specifications throughout the development life cycle.

To perform this job successfully, an employee must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation. To request a reasonable accommodation, notify Human Resources or the manager who oversees the position.

Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, developers and other team members in the conceptualization and development of new or existing software applications

Define, develop, and document software objectives, deliverables, and specifications in collaboration with internal users and departments

Research, identify, analyze, and fulfill requirements of all internal and external users and stakeholders

Identify need for and create software to enhance functionality and performance of company applications

Perform software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors and general debugging

Ensure software performs optimally through active monitoring for performance and usage

Participate in and may lead the definition of software development project plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation

Deploy software through environments to production upon completion of development, testing, and documentation

Conduct code reviews based on team’s defined best practices

Mentor software peers for engineering best practices and technical excellence

Provide and may lead product and software support for bugs, issues, and escalated incident tickets from end users to resolve application and software issues

Partner with other Engineers in resolving problems with software products or company software systems

Responsible for complex software aspects of your team or technical domain as a subject matter expert or owner of a service or functionality

Recommends new technologies, approaches, and best practices for their team or product wide adoption

Additional Functions

In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.

Participate in regulatory and compliance activities.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience

5+ years of software development experience required, with experience in all aspects of software development and product life cycles

Expertise in the Microsoft .NET tech stack, including but not limited to ASP.NET, C#, .NET Core, Entity Framework, and various front-end technologies

Experience with Microsoft Azure or equivalents (AWS, GCP, etc.)

Proficient experience with cloud-hosted application design, deployment, and maintenance

Experience with containerization technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes

Experience breaking up a monolith

Demonstrated experience within numerous modern platforms, frameworks, and languages

Knowledge of all aspects of application development and product life cycles, including agile approaches

Excellent understanding of software development and engineering best practices

Fluency in object-oriented programming and design

Extensive database and operating systems experience

Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products

Ability to develop and maintain software products written in different languages and platforms

Knowledge of programming for different delivery approaches such as on-premises, web, cloud, and mobile

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in an agile development environment

Experience working on a large scale SaaS application

Cloud certifications (Azure DevOps Engineer Expert) Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience in deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in cloud

Experience with Event-Based API Patterns

Familiarity with Azure DevOps and ServiceNow and project tracking systems

Experience with Angular

Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives

Working Environment

Office environment – either in Patterson facility or at home/remote location

Patterson Dental is committed to supporting a robust remote work culture, with well-established virtual collaboration practices and equal opportunities for career advancement and professional growth, regardless of physical location

Ability to be work remote and be on camera as needed

Travel to corporate sites is periodically required (Quarterly or so)

Periodic on call rotations and available outside of normal business hours on evenings and weekends during critical production release or issue escalation periods

This role is eligible for hire in any of the following States: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, HI, ID, IL, KS, KY, ME, MA, MI, MN, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NY, OR, RI, SD, TX, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI

The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount could exceed this range, based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills.

$140,000 - $160,000

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