Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Job Summary

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.

Essential Functions

Software Development

• Collaborate with clients, developers and other team members in the conceptualization and development of new or existing software applications.

• Define, develop, and document software business requirements, objectives, deliverables, and specifications on a project-by-project basis in collaboration with internal users and departments.

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

• Write programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or performance of company applications as needed.

• Execute software testing on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors and general debugging.

• Participate in an on-call schedule with the rest of the team for production support and code deployments.

Agile Team Work

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

• Perform and may lead program turnover to production support and customers upon completion of development, testing, and documentation.

• Help mentor Software Engineer peers through technical advice and reference.

Technologies

• We build and run technology solutions that runs in the cloud and are sold as a Software as a Service (SaaS) product.

• Our software product is designed to run in the cloud and our technology choices reflect that.

• We work in Angular, .NET Core, Azure SQL, C# technologies in the Microsoft Azure cloud

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Business, or area of functional responsibility preferred, or a combination of equivalent education and experience

• At least 5 years of programming experience required.  Should have prior experience within various platforms and languages

• Knowledge of all aspects of application development and project life cycles, including Agile applications

• Excellent understanding of coding methods and 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

• Familiarity with corporate governance, business cases, and return on investment concepts.

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

• Familiarity with Agile processes and scrum

• Extensive experience in C# - Experience using .Net framework

• Experience using front-end web technologies

• Angular is preferred

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps is a plus

• Experience building scalable applications using fundamental design principles

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with product planning, business cases, and return on investment concepts.

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.

• 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.

$120,000 - $140,000