Java Developer

Company Overview

CareStack is a complete cloud-based dental software solution for scheduling, clinical, billing, patient engagement, and reporting needs of dental offices of any size - whether it's a single location or a large multi-site DSO with hundreds of locations.

The company was founded in 2015 and the commercial launch was done in early 2018. Since then, more than 1000 offices have chosen CareStack as their single source of truth. This is the fastest growth till date in the dental practice management software market, dominated by 100 year old distribution companies.

More about CareStack

●    Rated by independent B2B software reviews and research analysts as the most modern, innovative and customer experience focussed company in the space with the fastest growth in the segment.

●    Important strategic go to market partnerships with dental industry leaders like Delta Dental, Darby Dental and several others.

●    Venture backed with over $60M raised from leading financial and strategic investors.

●    HQ'd in Orlando, FL with offices in Minnesota, Bangalore, Trivandrum and Cochin.

Role Overview

CareStack seeks to hire Software Development Engineer - 1 to build its next generation healthcare platform. You will be reporting to a Staff SDE in your business unit , to develop and release services and solutions for our platform, aligning with your business unit’s goals and objectives.

Key responsibilities

●    Technical Design

You can be a specialist in technology areas, but capable of creating complete designs to solve a specific problem that accomplishes a definitive product feature or enables a technical advancement.You should work with your lead to review your design and embrace the feedback

●    Process Definition/Adherence

You should deliver estimations, review test scenarios/cases created by QAs in your team, participate in sprint grooming and planning meetings. You must learn, practice and evangelize standard techniques for grooming, defining complexity of stories and estimation.

●    Code Quality

At Carestack we believe that your code reflects your character. Code for scale, produce maintainable reusable code. You must commit to clean coding, continuous refactoring to ensure a high level of code quality. Continuously learn, practice and evangelize coding patterns/best practices within and outside your team. You should ensure testability of team functional areas, facilitate integration testing, resolve deep rooted technical issues and proactively collaborate with team members in solving complex problems.

●    Team Player

You should proactively communicate to resolve dependencies within and outside the team. Understand organizations culture code and streamline conversations and activities that will further instill this code. Mentor and coach new additions to your team.

●    Value/Mission Alignment

Be a champion for CareStack within the Engineering team. Help drive workplace and cultural norms within your business unit that align with CareStack company values.

This role may be for you if you…

●    Have an insatiable itch to join and the courage to scale an early-stage technology company.

●    Have 2-4 years of experience in building modern day web platforms, using Microsoft technologies on the backend.

●    Can be a generalist or specialist with deep understanding of building software components that meet defined requirements, with good understanding of .NET Core/ASP.NET.

●    Are proficient in data structures and algorithms, and object oriented analysis and design of software systems.

●    Are a backend specialist with good understanding of event driven programming, distributed systems, caching/in-memory computing systems, data modeling for transactional systems.

●    Solid understanding of relational and non relational databases including warehouses.Preferably MySQL, MSSQL, Vertica and CosmosDB

●    Solid understanding of CI/CD patterns and IaC.

●    Expertise in building ETLs in both batch and streaming model.

●    Expertise in building and testing APIs and micro services

This role may not be for you if you…

●    Don’t have the itch to design solutions and write code and you don’t grab every other opportunity to review and write code.

●    Don’t have the fire in you to fight for your design suggestions and debate with logical data points

●    Don’t have the trait to be transactional in code reviews/design discussions, accept your mistakes and appreciate better ideas from your peers.

●    Haven’t developed the habit of doing objective conversations that are data driven.

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics.

Strong Core Java / C++ experience

·       Excellent understanding of Logical ,Object-oriented design patterns, algorithms and data structures.

·       Sound knowledge of application access methods including authentication mechanisms, API quota limits, as well as different endpoint REST, Java etc

·       Strong exp in databases - not just a SQL Programmer but with knowledge of DB internals

·       Sound knowledge of Cloud database available as service is plus (RDS, CloudSQL, Google BigQuery, Snowflake )

·       Experience working in any cloud environment and microservices based architecture utilizing GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, Azure or similar technologies

·       Experience in Application verticals such as ERP, CRM, Sales with applications such as Salesforce, Workday, SAP  < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Experience in building distributed systems  < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Expertise on Data warehouse < Not Mandatory - added advantage >

·       Exp in developing & delivering product as SaaS i< Not Mandatory - added advantage 

• Designing, coding, and debugging software using J2EE, Spring boot,Microservices ,AWS .
• Work closely with Solution architects to understand the architecture
  design and implement software designs accordingly.
• Improving the performance of existing software.
• Providing training to other engineers and code review.
• Maintaining and upgrading existing software.
• Recommending new technologies that can help increase productivity.
• Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of projects.
• Investigating software-related complaints and making necessary adjustments to ensure optimal software performance.
• Regularly attending team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Mentioning Software engineers on correct coding practices.

Primary Duties

• Build a broad knowledge across various systems and processes via knowledge transfer and capture any missing information on the wiki

• Gather software requirements by talking to various stakeholders and document them

• Implement software solutions after discussing the requirements and taking direction from the Technical lead and talking to other colleagues within and outside the team

• Provide necessary effort and time estimates for tasks to aid scheduling and prioritization

• Provide necessary 3rd line support to the Operations teams including software fixes as needed

• Work on any BAU development activity including on-boarding new data sets and delivering new markets into the system

• Work with external vendors from time to time to gather necessary requirements for new data or changes to existing data specifications

• Maintain pro-active communication with relevant stakeholders and keep them updated on progress

General

• Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
• All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 4+ years’ experience of programming in Java.
• 4+ years’ experience working with SQL including complex queries, stored procedures, views, database design and solid understanding of database concepts (preferably SQL Server)
• Experience of both Linux and Windows environments, scripting and tools
• Willing to carry out operational data tasks alongside developing new solutions
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of work
• Excellent communication skills

Beneficial

• Experience working with Cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Experience in handling financial data sets and familiarity with financial instruments (equities, futures, FX)
• Experience working with data pipelines and building ETL solutions
• Experience working with tools like Flink, Kafka and Tableau

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher.
• A degree with mathematical and computing content (e.g. Computer Science, Maths, Physics)

• Java, J2EE
• Microservices
• Spring Boot
• JPA, REST API, JSON, JWT, OAuth, Spring Security, Swagger
• Oracle / MySQL / Postgres DB
• Angular / React / React Native
• JIRA, Bitbucket

Must-Have -

• Excellent knowledge of Core Java and Spring
• Strong experience in REST API and web services
• Experience in Oracle / Mysql / Postgres DB
• Should be efficient with Java J2EE and related technologies
• Should have very good communication skills and analytical skills.
• Should have good knowledge in Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies.
• Good knowledge of current / emerging technologies and trends
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. High levels of initiative and creativity
• Good communication skills with all stakeholders, good team player with ability to mentor juniors

Good to Have:

• Knowledge in Banking Domain
• Full-stack developers with knowledge and understanding of Javascript and associated technologies like React, Angular, HTML5, CSS will have an advantage.