Company Description

Our innovative technology platform aims to improve the day-to-day operations of dental practices. Providing a single place to manage all dental supplies and reorder from the best-priced vendors, doctors, and their staff save time, money and avoid overstocking or under-stocking issues of time-sensitive products. With our technology, managing, ordering, and tracking from multi-suppliers becomes transparent, seamless, and eliminates paperwork.

As much as we are excited about building innovative products, we are equally, if not more, excited to build a unique team with a focus on the qualities that are important for us. We are a group of people who are excited to work on something hard and look forward to challenges. We trust you are driven by wanting to do great work and commitment to ship quality code that we all can be proud of, and our loved ones shouldn’t come at the cost of it.

This is a unique opportunity to join our team and play a key role in building the next generation SaaS platform. If you are an experienced and motivated engineer with a passion for building scalable web applications please consider Zen as your next growth opportunity.  

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with experience in building performant and scalable web applications, translating complex business requirements into system capabilities, working closely with a group of engineers, dev ops, QA, product teams, and most importantly the end users. You will be interacting with actual users and will immediately see your code in action. You will solve real-world problems and will observe the quality-of-life improvements our platform and your contributions to it makes for our customers. This requires a dynamic individual with excellent organizational, analytical skills, and most importantly communication skills. 

Your responsibilities will include

• Develop, maintain, and enhance cutting edge web-based PHP applications 
• Apply modern UX and UI design principles, design patterns, and modern architecture 
• Design and implement REST APIs
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Utilize backend data services and enhance existing data services API as required
• Take responsibility for the entire application feature development life cycle from inception to delivery and post launch support
• Build complex algorithm to for cost optimization, order prediction, vendor preference
• Adhere to internal organization Agile processes
• Document process, features, architecture, and design
• Coordinate with team members and keeps internal and external stakeholders informed of the status of development effort
• Serve as a liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in software and web development

Who You are Personally

• Highly organized: at any given time, you’ll be juggling multiple time-sensitive priorities
• A quick learner: A curious person who will not only learn in formal training and situational environments, but also develop their own deep understanding of the system, and the subject matter of dental practice inner workings
• Dental experience: especially with dental products is a big plus; however a highly motivated person is expected to learn and prosper within a few months 
• Trustworthy and reliable: you commit to your projects and deliver on your commitments   
• Positive and problem-solving mindset: most projects will be difficult but fun to tackle  
• Excellent verbal and written English: effective communication skills that span both engineering communication as well as communication with partners and customers
• Advanced professional English: C1/C2 English proficiency – capable of effortless communication in professional and technical contexts, ensuring clarity and understanding with engineers, customers, and stakeholders
• Strong individual contributor as well as excellent team player with a "no task is too small" attitude
• Create and promote a culture of excellence, mentorship, and thought leadership within Engineering and across departments
• Creative and efficient problem solver

Your Professional Experience Should Include

• Previous working experience as a PHP / Laravel developer for (5-7) year(s)
• Previous working experience as a Vue developer for (3-5) year(s)
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar field
• In-depth knowledge and experience with object-oriented PHP and Laravel 10 PHP Framework
• Hands-on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design 
• Hands-on experience with software unit-testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat) and test-driven development
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL profiling and query optimization
• Experience with AWS Cloud
• DevOps Experience is a plus
• Our Current Stack: Vue, PHP, Laravel, SQS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Golang, JSON API

Who You Will Become at Zen

We’re not just employees. We are team members. We have goals and the drive to accomplish them. We are candid and provide honest real-time feedback on how to improve. Being able to respectfully disagree is something we highly encourage and cherish internally. We try not to take ourselves too seriously and be able to laugh off daily challenges. Our favorite phrase is “we hire adults” to answer any questions related to employee tracking, asking for vacations, and taking a sick day. An answer to all of that at Zen is “You are an adult and we trust you will make the right decision”

We’re creating an environment where everyone can thrive. Our customers are dental professionals and it’s a diverse group of people from all walks of life. So we’re building a team that is, too. In order to deeply understand the needs of our customers we first need to have compassion and empathy for everyone on the team. That comes from diversity and equal opportunity for everyone.