Job Description
How you’ll make an impact
You’ll shape the team’s technical excellence by driving sound architectural decisions, raising engineering standards, and ensuring our systems are resilient, scalable, and easy to evolve. Your influence will streamline development workflows, reduce friction, and create an environment where engineers can move quickly without compromising quality. You’ll strengthen our operational readiness by improving incident playbooks, observability, and team preparedness. Through clear communication and structured planning, you’ll enable predictable delivery, better alignment with stakeholders, and a culture of continuous improvement. Your leadership will directly improve reliability, developer experience, and long-term product stability.
What you'll do
You will lead a team of around 4–6 software engineers, balancing hands-on technical leadership (about 40%, including coding and technical decisions) with people management, planning, and delivery execution.
Working effectively with product managers, other engineers and business stakeholders on projects.
Guide the team toward pragmatic architectural choices that balance scalability, security, cost, and simplicity.
Establish and reinforce coding standards, patterns, and best practices through thoughtful code reviews and documentation.
Identify workflow bottlenecks and drive improvements to tooling, automation, local environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
Maintain clear, actionable incident playbooks and improve monitoring and alerting to reduce noise and increase confidence.
Break down work into well scoped increments and support predictable delivery through strong planning and risk management.
Champion reliability by ensuring services meet SLOs, have meaningful observability, and undergo effective post incident improvement.
Automate manual or repetitive processes to increase engineering efficiency and reduce operational toil.
Communicate technical decisions, risks, and trade-offs clearly to Product and cross functional partners.
Ensure engineering governance controls, testing requirements, and stage gates are consistently followed.
You will work in an AWS infrastructure stack, with access to the advantages of Henry Schein One’s close AWS partnership.
As a people leader you will:
Lead and develop a high-performing team, motivating and inspiring your team to reach and exceed all set targets and KPIs
Coach team members in best practices, fostering a culture of continuous development
Ensure all team members have clear, up-to-date Individual Development Plans (IDPs), and receive regular performance reviews and meaningful 1:1 conversations to support growth, engagement, and accountability
Maintain a trusting, collaborative environment, enabling the team to thrive
Lead the recruitment efforts for your team, identifying and hiring top talent
Promote an inclusive and diverse culture, in line with the Henry Schein One values
What you’ll bring with you
Strong experience in a software engineering team leadership role.
Experience of working in a shared responsibility leadership environment (Engineering, Product, Design and Data), taking strong accountability for your discipline area.
(Preferred) Experience of leveraging AI and LLM tooling and developing AI-powered customer-facing features.
Ability to use data and anecdotal evidence to drive change.
Ability to pivot as priorities and needs change without losing sight of long-term strategy.
A curious mind: You want to explore the unknown and brave enough to disrupt your own ways of working, and able to bring that to you teams.
Relentless focus on business and customer impact over raw technical output with an ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Full Stack / Backend: Background in highly scalable systems, preferably built in Ruby on Rails.
Front End: Strong background in developing business system web applications, preferably with some experience of Ember.
Building systems on the AWS stack preferable.
Diversity at Henry Schein One
Diversity at Henry Schein One is all about you being you. Diversity and inclusion are integral to every aspect of our business, we push boundaries fuelled by a diverse set of voices and a desire to make a difference. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified candidates are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age. We welcome everyone to our team; we foster creativity and ambition throughout our business. We’re making a difference every day and you can too.
Our Shared Values
Everyone at Henry Schein One is encouraged to live and demonstrate our core values:
Working as one
Making it easy
Caring about care
Making it happen
Henry Schein is committed to the principle of equal opportunities in employment in all spheres of its operation. Henry Schein UK Holdings strives to operate a policy of equal opportunity and not discriminate against any person gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- Strong experience in a software engineering team leadership role
- Experience working in a shared responsibility leadership environment with Product, Design, and Data
- Background building highly scalable backend or full-stack systems
- Strong background in developing business web applications (frontend experience)
- Experience coaching, developing, and running regular 1:1s and performance reviews
- Experience breaking down work for predictable delivery, planning, and risk management
- Maintain incident playbooks, improve monitoring/alerting, and champion reliability (SLOs)
- Ability to use data and qualitative evidence to drive change
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with Ember.js
- Experience building systems on the AWS stack
- Experience leveraging AI and LLM tooling to build customer-facing features
- Experience leading recruitment and hiring for engineering teams
Henry Schein Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Henry Schein and has not been reviewed or approved by Henry Schein.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage is broadly comprehensive, with multiple plan options and wellbeing/EAP resources emphasized. Benefits breadth helps bolster overall total‑rewards value.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off and holidays are described as meaningful, with structured carryover practices in some areas. Paid parental leave is available, enhancing the overall time‑off offering.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is part of the standard package, with plan documents noting employer discretion on match settings. The program has been characterized positively in prior periods, contributing to total compensation.
Henry Schein Insights
What We Do
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With more than 20,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that help improve operational success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology, and Supply Chain solutions help office-based dental and medical practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more effectively. These solutions also support dental and medical laboratories, government and institutional healthcare clinics, as well as other alternate care sites.
