Full Stack Web Dev

Henry Schein's GIC is seeking an experienced Full Stack Web Application Software Engineer with an affinity for working with the latest JavaScript, HTML5, and server side technologies.

Henry Schein

Henry Schein

Henry Schein has an impressive story of success as the world's largest provider of products and services to office-based healthcare practitioners in the dental, medical and veterinary professions. For over 80 years, we have focused on delivering value to our customers. We are a Fortune 500 company, rated as a World's Most Admired Company and ranked number one in its industry for social responsibility.

The Team

The successful candidate will work as a team member of a newly formed arm of GIC focused on researching and developing innovative solutions within the dental, medical, and veterinary markets. This R&D group (Henry's Garage) works on developing solutions leveraging a range of technologies, including (but not limited to) web, mobile, and Internet enabled hardware devices.

The Community

Located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, you will join a team with 20+ years experience developing best of breed desktop and web based solutions for Dentistry. A small university town located in the bread basket of Nova Scotia, Wolfville and surrounding area offers a high quality lifestyle punching well above its weight. Whether your interest is technology, food (wineries, brewpubs, farm fresh food or restaurants), active living (hiking, cycling, skiing, running, countless organized and casual activities), nature (the highest tides in the world are found here), culture (music, film, and drama festivals), and family oriented activities, the region offers a highly affordable lifestyle which is hard to beat.

The Candidate

What We Are Looking For In a Candidate

  • Great communication skills. You enjoy writing, and can clearly express your ideas between technical and non-technical team members.
  • Strong planning and time management skills; experienced in delivering projects from start to finish.
  • Backgrounds in distributed systems and high traffic network architecture.
  • Experience with administering server operating systems (such as Ubuntu Server) in production environments running services like Apache or nginx, ActiveMQ, Redis.
  • Experience with managing data stores (SQL and noSQL) and distributed computing technologies.
  • Extensive experience in server side web programming stacks (PHP, Node.JS, Go), including building and consuming REST-ful web services.
  • HTML5 and related technologies (CSS, Javascript APIs).
  • Cross platform JavaScript.
  • Front-end JavaScript frameworks and libraries (React, Ember.js, AngularJS, or like libraries).
  • Familiarity with build tools (Gulp, Webpack, Grunt, or like tools).
  • Solid troubleshooting and analysis skills with attention to detail and quality. Familiarity with QA tooling (xUnit, Selenium, Jasmine, or like tools).
  • Experience in using Ansible, Chef or Puppet to manage production and non-prod environments.
  • Experience with setting up monitoring and understand the metric requirements for system/application health.
  • Proficient with Git or a similar source version control system.
  • A degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar experience in software development.

Responsibilities

  • Work with team members to review/analyze software requirements and functional specifications and create implementation plans.
  • Write, document, and maintain client side code.
  • Perform functional and regression testing, both manually and using automation tools, in multiple environments.
  • Validate and troubleshoot technical issues, both within the application code and outside of it.
  • Work with the support team and customers as part of the product development lifecycle.

Other Highly Desirable Skills and Attributes

  • Knowledgeable on technology trends such as ES6, Web-components, and JavaScript frameworks, architectural concerns, user habits and how they influence application development.
  • Open source contributions.
  • Experience with microcontrollers and sensors: Internet of Things.
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills, intellectual curiosity, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Awareness of Search Engine Optimizations, structured data, web accessibility standards.
  • Experience delivering software in an Agile environment.

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