About Us 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.

About the Opportunity 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.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, collaborating across disciplines, and supporting the growth of other developers. 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 workplace.

Availability 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.

What You’ll Do

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

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 throughout 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

What You’ll Bring

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

Strong experience with Java and modern 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

Experience working with cloud-based applications and modern development environments

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

Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a distributed team

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

Nice to Have

Experience with Groovy, Grails, Spock, Hibernate, or Liquibase

Experience with React or another modern frontend framework

Experience with microservices, distributed systems, or event-driven architecture

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

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Dentrix Ascend (Canada)
🏢 Henry Schein One group
📍 Canada