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The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members at more than 1,300 health and wellness offices across 48 states in four distinct categories: dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and AZPetVet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.
TAG has reached the size to invest in building a technology platform that will transform and modernize the dental industry. TAG has two ongoing digital transformations with platform modernization with a cloud-native migration that will empower an exciting digitalization of the dental industry with advances in 3D printing, scanning, AI, and much more.
Our continued growth has created an opportunity to join our team as a Director of Software Engineering.
As a Director, you will join one of our new teams focused on a core business domain. You will lead developers to modernize legacy systems by developing new software and services using cloud-native GCP technologies, using Microsoft .NET (Core/6) stack on Kubernetes.
Responsibilities:
Leading a development team in the design, implementation, and testing of enterprise applications
About 70% of hands-on coding & application design
Planning and roadmap design
Reviewing design and code to ensure code quality
Working with business stakeholders and product owners for business requirements gathering and clarification
Designing/developing new and enhancing existing software applications and backend services using Microsoft .NET 6 technologies
Contribute new ideas to improve software practices and processes
Gain an understanding of the domain elements of dental management and business models.
Resolve defects/bugs during QA testing, pre-production, production, and post-release patches.
Ensure the quality of the built software via automated unit/integration tests
Working in Agile environment with other developers, software architects, QA analysts, and product managers.
Be dependable; deliver individual and team outcomes on time and within the expectations of the role.
Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 15+ years of software development experience working in complex environments (or work experience equivalent).
Strong technical and team management experience
Strong knowledge and experience of .NET Core, C#
Strong technical and team leadership
Excellent communication skills
Proficient in the design of RESTful APIs, you understand how CRUD maps to APIs and can stand by critical principles such as HTTP verbs and code.
Experience working in cloud computing environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Minimum 5 years of experience with distributed and microservice application architectures
Established experience in upgrading the company's technology stack to the next generation
Experience with SQL and complex stored procedures
Clear insights into the industry trends and latest technologies
Strong understanding of unit testing principles and approaches
Strong understanding of LINQ syntax and ORMs (EF Core preferable)
Strong understanding of source code control tools (Gitlab) and branching model
Experience using project management tools like Atlassian JIRA
Nice to have:
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experienced with building out and maintaining metrics, alarms, and monitoring of services.
Experience in xUnit/nUnit frameworks
Experience with OAuth or OpenID Connect protocols
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