Western Dental Services, Inc., California’s largest dental services provider and one of the nation’s largest dental HMO’s, is looking for a bright, motivated, senior level software developer. This position will be based at our Corporate Headquarters in Orange, CA. This role will primarily lead the software development, support and application integration for corporate business systems at the company. Responsibilities include defining solutions, developing and maintaining business applications and integrations, managing software development lifecycle artifacts, communicating deliverables to the leadership and technology teams.  

Working in collaboration with other IT service and business teams, this role will be accountable for software development lifecycle for strategic corporate solutions, Web based systems, APIs  and cloud based initiatives to support company’s strategic goals.

• Engaging with internal stakeholders to determine the scope of application software development and maintenance projects utilizing skills in Microsoft .Net (C#).
• Design and development of business solutions utilizing Microsoft Sql Server and DB2.
• Collaborating with the software development and other technology team on application design and development.
• Developing software and responsible for deployment and release of across platforms.
• Performing diagnostic tests and debugging procedures.
• Optimizing software by performing maintenance, updates, and upgrades.
• Collaborate with various IT teams to develop scalable, reusable, high performing and highly available software solutions in alignment with business and technology strategy.
• Keeping up to date with coding standards and advancements in application development.
• Work as part of an Agile development team to implement all phases of enterprise-level software applications.
• Documenting processes and maintaining software development records. Creating and maintaining design documents in collaboration with development and infrastructure teams.
• Understand the impact of changes to existing processes, functions and systems and document these relations with processes and information flow diagrams.
• Provide presentations that clearly articulate technology solutions to leadership and technology staff in simple to understand terms.
• Support production operations and respond to critical production incidents and provides leadership during troubleshooting.

• Solid hands-on experience developing software in C# and other similar programming languages for a minimum of 3+ years
• Extensive working experience on scripting languages like JavaScript, .NET Framework, .NET Core, PowerShell, CMD, etc.
• Solid SQL experience preferably with Microsoft SQL Server and DB2
• Expertise in using Angular, CSS, Bootstrap, Entity Framework, TPL
• Visual studio tool, Visual Source Safe, and GitHub experience
• Solid understanding of JSON, XML, XSLT, XSD and XML parsing processes and application integration methodologies like SOA, ESB, EDI, EAI, ETL
• C++ preferred
• Expertise of architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC) and patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller)
• Candidates with strong hands-on experience working on SSIS will be preferred
• Experience in agile development practices & methodologies
• Good understanding and hands-on experience with cloud native technologies including SaaS, PaaS, multi-tenancy, multi-tiered infrastructure, serverless computing and CI/CD
• Proficient understanding of code version control tools
• Attention to detail for problem solving and code robustness.
• Highly detail oriented with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Great organizational and time management skills.
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience of working on billing systems
• Knowledge of EDI and experience on tools like IBM Sterling B2B Integrator is a plus
• Understanding of reporting tools like SSRS and SharePoint environment will be a plus
• At least 3 years of experience in IT or Software Engineering required preferably with 2 years of health-care industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.