Henry Schein One Canada builds technology that helps dental professionals, teams, and organizations work more efficiently and deliver better patient care. Recognized as one of the 2026 Best Workplaces in Canada through Great Place to Work®, we value collaboration, impact, and continuous improvement.

Our Dentrix Ascend engineering team contributes to the development of Dentrix Ascend, our cloud-based practice management platform used by dental practices across the United States. Engineers in Canada work closely with product and engineering partners to build scalable features, improve system performance, and strengthen the reliability of a modern, cloud-native solution.

This team plays an important role in driving technical quality, innovation, and continuous improvement for one of Henry Schein One’s growing cloud products.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our True North team and help build and evolve Dentrix Ascend for the US market.

In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deliver reliable software for a complex SaaS platform used by dental professionals 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.

You will work closely with Product, Engineering, UX, and Quality partners across our distributed organization.

At Henry Schein One Canada, you will join a culture that embraces ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and open communication within a flexible, high-performing environment.

This is a hybrid role, with one day per week in our Surrey, BC office to support collaboration, brainstorming, and team connection. Our office is located across from Guildford Mall.

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 that balance delivery, scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Write clean, secure, well-tested code and participate actively in code reviews

Improve application performance, reliability, monitoring, and development workflows

Collaborate with Product, UX, Quality, and other engineering teams throughout planning and delivery

Mentor other developers through code reviews, pairing, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance

Explore practical ways to use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and software quality

5+ years of professional software development experience, including experience building complex web or SaaS applications

- Strong experience with Java and contemporary object-oriented software development
- Experience with Groovy, Grails, Spring, or a comparable Java-based framework
- Experience designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs
- Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modelling, and ORM frameworks
- Experience writing unit, integration, and automated tests
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices, version control, containerization, and production monitoring
- Experience diagnosing performance, reliability, or scalability issues in production systems




- Understanding of software architecture, common design patterns, and secure development practices
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Experience with React or another modern frontend framework

Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar messaging technologies

Experience with AWS and Kubernetes

Experience profiling and optimizing application performance or database queries

Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace

Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or similar platforms

Experience working with healthcare, dental, financial, or other complex workflow-based software

Java, Groovy, Grails

React

PostgreSQL, Redis, MS SQL

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

Cursor and other AI-assisted development tools

Short online behavioural and cognitive assessment

Technical and Team Panel Interview

Every application is personally reviewed, every interview is human-to-human, and we only use AI tools to support listening and accuracy, never to replace real connection.

We pride ourselves on fostering a flexible, high-performing culture that is inclusive and supports professional growth. The posted range for this position is between $130,000 CAD and $142,000 CAD, which is the expected starting base salary range for an employee who is new to the role through to someone who is fully proficient and experienced in the role. Many factors go into determining employee pay within the posted range, including prior experience, training, current skills, certifications, and education.

Comprehensive health benefits plan, including 100% drug coverage

- Three weeks of paid vacation, growing up to five weeks with tenure

📌 Senior Software Development Engineer, Engineering - Software Development (Vancouver)
🏢 Henry Schein One group
📍 Vancouver