Senior Backend Engineer – SaaS, Cloud & APIs

Henry Schein One Canada; Surrey; Hybrid; CAD 130,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Henry Schein One Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our True North team and help evolve Dentrix Ascend for the US market. You will design, develop, test, and deliver reliable software for a complex SaaS platform used by dental practices throughout their day.

You will work across the development lifecycle, contribute to technical decisions, resolve complex production issues, and help improve the quality and maintainability of the codebase.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building complex web or SaaS applications.
• Strong experience with Java and modern object-oriented software development.
• Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with cloud-based applications and CI/CD practices.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable software for the Dentrix Ascend platform.
• Build high-quality backend services, APIs, database integrations, and user-facing functionality.
• Translate product and business requirements into practical, maintainable technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical design discussions and make recommendations balancing delivery, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Write clean, secure, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.
• Improve application performance, reliability, monitoring, and development workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, UX, Quality, and other engineering teams across planning and delivery.
• Support engineering modernization initiatives, including framework, architecture, and tooling improvements.
• Mentor other developers through code reviews, pairing, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
• Contribute to team standards and engineering practices while remaining accountable for your own delivery commitments.
• Explore practical ways to use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and software quality.

Skills

Java

Groovy/Grails

RESTful APIs

SQL/ORM

Unit testing

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS)

Kubernetes

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GitLab

Gradle

Jira

Dynatrace

Cursor AI tools

Job description

Henry Schein One Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our True North team and help evolve Dentrix Ascend for the US market. You will design, develop, test, and deliver reliable software for a complex SaaS platform used by dental practices throughout their day.

You will work across the development lifecycle, contribute to technical decisions, resolve complex production issues, and help improve the quality and maintainability of the codebase.