Planet DDS Looking for Software Engineer I at Newport Beach, CA Full Time

Overview

A software engineer helps build and enhance SaaS and mobile products for dental offices and dental groups. To be successful, the engineer will need to be self-motivated, a critical thinker, be able to take high-level direction, communicate clearly, gain consensus, and drive to completion in a very fast paced environment.

A software engineer doesn’t shy away from learning something new or experimenting with technologies to find the right solution. A friendly, hard-working, positive person with a true passion for solving problems with technology will fit in well with our dynamic team.

This role is hybrid working 1-2x per week out of one of our offices: Akron, OH, Atlanta, GA, Phoenix, AZ, Newport Beach, CA or Seattle, WA.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Work on moderate complexity tasks with direction from more senior team members including participation in feature development

• Write

• high-quality code following OOP principles and best practices within the relevant frameworks

• reusable, modular, and scalable code

• automated unit tests

• Participate in pair programming with more senior developers

• Contribute to code reviews, design reviews, effort estimates, task breakdowns, and other team discussions

• Fix software defects

• Meaningfully test all of your work including writing automated tests whenever possible

• Follow coding and other standards per team practices

• Work with the existing engineering team on continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of PlanetDDS products

• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design and deploy new features

• Learn about on the latest tools and patterns consistent with your role

• Participate in our Agile processes—from updating Jira to reflecting meaningfully in retrospectives and everything in between

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of experience in a software engineering/development role

• 3 years of more of experience in at least one of the following:

• C#

• .NET Core

• MVC/AngularJS

• Demonstrated knowledge of OOP and commonly used design patterns

• Experience with at least one version control system, such as Git, Bitbucket, TFS, etc.

• Experience working with datasets / databases particularly SQL Server

• Desire to learn and open to different training practices such as mentoring, mob programming, pair programming, code reviews

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Ability to engage throughout the department and the company to achieve goals

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience

• Any of the following would be a plus:

• Dental industry knowledge

• Exposure to the full software development lifecycle

• Experience working in React

• Experience working in the cloud especially Microsoft Azure

• Experience in B2B product development

• Experience in a CI/CD environment

About You

• You respect and share our values

• You love working with teams of smart and driven people who are excited to solve challenging problems

• You can talk about complex software systems and have ideas on how to most effectively build quality, performant, and easily supportable software

• You believe that code-reviews, giving them and asking for them, are important to delivering quality a product

• You love to cover your code with adequate unit, integration, and performance tests

• You are adamant about instrumenting and measuring the performance of code to find bottlenecks and improve performance

• You exhibit dogged determination to get to the root of problems

• You care about best-practices and evangelizing them with the team

• You like to research and propose new techniques and methodologies to improve quality and efficiency of our software

• You can clearly convey your thoughts, enjoy presenting what you’ve done, and can cater your message to audiences both technical and non-technical

Behavior and Scope

• You understand the priorities and goals for the team.

• You’re thoughtful about process; proposes changes as needed for the whole team to execute more efficiently.

• You hold your team accountable for their best possible efforts.

• When finding an issue in another team, you raise the matter tactfully with that team.

• When discussing work, you engage in discussion around business impact.

• You typically work on systems in multiple domains but require guidance to complete complex work to achieve success.

• You’re able to diagnose issues, determine root cause, and recommend a solution.