Team Lead, Software Engineering - Practice Management

We are looking for problem solvers, not ticket takers. We're not about following strict processes or micromanaging. We operate on trust and focus on making a real impact. Our teams are mission focused and presented with problems, supported by context and research to help them deliver valuable solutions. We are a continuous delivery focused group, shipping changes to production 100+ times per month. We plan our commitments on a quarterly basis and work in 6-week cycles that enable us to solve real problems for our users and their patients while balancing technical debt, bugs, innovation and team growth. Our teams are directly responsible for making decisions that will improve oral care services for thousands of dental professionals and their patients. Importantly, we keep things simple. We build software that delivers value for our users whether they are our customers, employees or other stakeholders. We make small changes that deliver business value, we test these with our users and iterate on the feedback. We resist the urge to over-engineer our solutions. We let our users and the data tell us where we go next. We believe in the following engineering values;

• We think big, but deliver small
• We win as a team
• We innovate through product enhancement, not chasing technological trends
• We harness the power of tech debt with intentionality
• Thoughtful coding is our guiding principle
• Quality is a collective responsibility
• We are all managers of one
Our Tech and Tools
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js
• Postgres, Redis
• Puma, Sidekiq
• AWS
• GitHub
• JIRA, Slite, Slack, New Relic, Leading a high performing team of remote software engineers to improve the lives of our customers and their patients through the creation of market leading solutions.
• Designing, building and maintaining across the full lifecycle for your team's solutions
• Providing API infrastructure and services that allow for integration between different products and third party systems
• Driving a high performing culture of continuous delivery and observability
• Collaborating effectively with your product manager, designer, other engineers and business stakeholders to build and support successful new features whilst improving the quality and experience of existing functionality
• Communicating technical ideas and leading projects with a focus on solving real-world challenges
• Enabling process and practice maturity to deliver on global growth opportunities
• Empowering your team to achieve a high level of productivity and capability
• Helping recruit and retain engineers to create a talent dense, high performing team
• Improving system maintainability and security
  
  We are looking for a software engineering team lead who is experienced in building applications for consumers and enterprises. As team lead, you will be self-motivated, contributing to the creation, execution and delivery of team objectives, while growing and representing your team within the wider business and functions, You understand the benefits of continuous delivery engineering workflows and how to set your team up to succeed in this environment
• You are driven by providing solutions that make a difference to users.
• You are highly self-motivated and can work independently or partner closely with other engineers on a project.
• You are excited about building high-quality products and want to own the product development lifecycle starting with the right design and development principles.
• You have strong communication and interpersonal skills. You enjoy collaborating closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer.
• You enjoy solving problems and like to challenge yourself by building scalable and highly performant solutions.
• You care about the development of others and are driven to continuously improve your team and its individuals.
• You are able to positively and collaboratively influence decision making to improve practices within your team, department and stakeholder network., 2 years+ experience within an engineering team lead position
• Senior-level full stack engineer with 5+ years of experience
• Strong at developing web applications using Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML and CSS
• Experience working with Single Page Applications and Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js or (preferably) Ember.js
• Experience working with database technologies such as Postgres or SQL Server
• A robust knowledge of building and working with RESTful APIs
• Experience integrating with internal and third party services
• A knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Azure
• Desirable: Knowledge of data migration and ETL practices
  
  Henry Schein One provides leading online dental practice management software to thousands of dental professionals. We are shaping the future of how millions of patients interact with their dental practice. We aim to solve tough, real-world problems by continuously innovating in the product space. We are growing our team to allow us to expand the use of Dentally across the globe. This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's best employers as recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 initiative.
  
  We try to make our process as simple as possible whilst giving you and us opportunities to learn about each other.
• 20mins of online cultural and cognitive assessments
• Chat with the Director Software Engineering and/or Engineering Manager to review role and culture alignment
• Pair Programming Session
• Interview with Engineering Team Lead peer group
After this, we aim to make a decision within 24/48 hoursOur shared values Consistently live and demonstrate Henry Schein One core values:
• Mutuality
• No politics
• Each person is as important as the next
• Recognise creativity and encourage it
• Open communication
• Strong Ethics