The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, test, and maintain complex software services in support of Patterson Dental software applications. Our engineers are involved in understanding the business impact of their work and creating solutions that deliver results to our customers by leading research, design, documentation, and modification of software specifications and applications throughout the product development life cycle.

This role is for a back-end engineer on an internal platform services team that provides libraries, APIs, and integration that connect our product to external partners. This team is also responsible for building and maintaining internal systems, like event management solutions, that are critical to our microservices architecture strategy and design. This role will have a heavy focus on defining APIs, events, and messages for use by internal application and third-party integrations.

The Dental Sofware Platform is a (PaaS) offering to Patterson development teams and approved vendors. It provides resources to allow developers to create service offerings by accelerating the creation of functionality around deployments, service registration and discovery, identity and security management of the Patterson identity, and common tooling for instrumentation and telemetry on services and applications deployed utilizing the platform.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of software features that our customers need

Collaborate with product owners, developers, and other team members in the conceptualization and development of new or existing software applications by providing technical expertise to architects, analysts, and other developers

Refine the definition and prioritization of technical initiatives and development work items including scoping, scheduling, and implementation.

Mentor new team members and associate engineers in a group mentoring environment through technical advice and reference

Contribute to the design, development, and optimization of software assets to enhance functionality and/or performance of company applications

Participate in the identification, triage and/or remediation of Unit test, QA, and/or production issues. Including scaling and performance remediation.

Periodic on call rotations with availability outside of normal business hours during critical production release or issue escalation periods

Core Competencies

Analytical Skills - Interprets and digests complex information, applies logic and sound critical thinking to astutely evaluate information, identifies flaws in reasoning but integrates good judgment in presenting findings, creates insightful and comprehensible reports, devises improvements or corrections to processes/procedures/plans based on strong analytical findings.

Creativity & Innovation - Generates new ideas, challenges the status quo, takes risks, supports change, encourages innovation, solves problems creatively.

Productivity - Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops excellent work procedures, manages time well, handles information flow.

Quality Work - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.

Teamwork - Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team leader to meet goals, welcomes newcomers, and promotes a team atmosphere.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a combination of equivalent education and experience.

5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with expertise in C#, .NET Framework and .NET Core

Experience with microservices, RESTful APIs, messaging, event driven design, and service architectures

Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities

A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

Strong skills in Object Oriented Design and software development best practices

Understanding of secure coding methods and best practices

Understanding of best practices for building applications with peak performance and reliability

Preferred Qualifications

Familiar with Identity Management Architectures (user directory, SSO, Federation, etc.)

Experience with developing and the optimization of native Microsoft Azure implementations utilizing and enabled by Azure DevOps

Experience with cloud database technologies. Preferably SQL and Cosmos DB in MS Azure frameworks

Familiar with containerization using frameworks like Docker and Azure Container Apps

Experience in a Scaled Agile software development environment

Fluency in English

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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