Patterson isn't just a place to work, it's a partner that cares about your success.
One of the distinguishing marks of our company is the talented people who embrace the people-first, always advancing, and results-driven culture. Professional growth abounds in this motivating environment. We value the diverse talents and experiences our employees bring to Patterson and believe that they build a stronger and successful organization.
The Senior Software Engineer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains software applications. This includes being involved in understanding the business impact of the necessary work and creating solutions to realize that impact by leading research, design, documentation, and modification of software specifications throughout the development life cycle.
*This role will be Hybrid (2-days a week in office) and it is required that you are located within 50 miles of our Corporate Offices in either Mendota Heights, MN or Loveland, CO. In-person attendance is expected to foster collaboration, innovation, and team connection.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an employee must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation. To request a reasonable accommodation, notify Human Resources or the manager who oversees the position.
Technical Contributions: Design, develop, and rigorously test assigned software components, following established development methodologies. Diagnose and resolve complex software issues by analyzing root causes and assessing their impact on system performance. This role is expected to be primarily backend with some light front end work.
Integration Leadership: Lead the design and development of integrations with multiple external vendors, ensuring secure, scalable, and seamless connectivity across systems and internal products.
Technical Leadership: Conduct design and code reviews, influence technical direction within a team or product area and mentor other engineers.
Collaboration & Communication: Work cross-functionally with product managers, architects, and QA to deliver well-aligned, end-to-end solutions.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
In addition to the essential functions listed above, the incumbent may perform the following additional functions.
· Participate in regulatory, security and compliance activities.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of software development experience, with experience in all aspects of software development and product life cycles.
Deep proficiency in C# and .NET (framework and dotnet 8/10), with an emphasis on writing clean, maintainable, testable, and performant code using modern design patterns and principles (SOLID, etc.).
API Design & Governance: Experience designing, documenting, and maintaining RESTful or GraphQL APIs
Cloud-Scale Systems: Practical experience deploying, scaling, and managing cloud applications on Microsoft Azure or AWS. Hands-on experience developing and operating software in high-traffic, high-transaction, or high-concurrency environments where performance and availability are critical.
Production Observability: Demonstrated ability to design and implement observability practices including logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting; familiarity with tools such as Application Insights, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Event-Driven Architecture: Proven experience designing and implementing asynchronous, message-based, or event-driven systems
Testing & Quality: Demonstrated commitment to quality through unit testing, integration testing, and code review practices.
CI/CD & DevOps Practices: Experience building and maintaining continuous integration and deployment pipelines
Collaboration & Communication: Strong ability to work cross-functionally with product managers, architects, and QA to deliver well-aligned, end-to-end solutions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Security-First Mindset: Strong understanding of identity, authentication (OAuth2/OpenID Connect), authorization, and data protection within distributed systems strongly preferred.
Integration Leadership: Proven experience leading the design and development of integrations with multiple external vendors, ensuring secure, scalable, and seamless connectivity across systems and internal products.
Experience in micro front-end architecture, JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular, React)
Scalability & Resilience: Ability to design systems with fault tolerance, retry logic, idempotency, and graceful degradation to handle transient failures and peak loads.
Azure Expertise: Strong knowledge of App Services, Redis, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Key Vault, and Azure SQL and Azure DevOps, automated pipelines
The compensation range for this role is below.
$125,000 - $155,000
What's In It For You:
We provide competitive benefits, unique incentive programs and rewards for our eligible employees:
Full Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits and an integrated Wellness Program
401(k) Match Retirement Savings Plan
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Holiday Pay & Floating Holidays
Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Educational Assistance Program
Full Paid Parental and Adoption Leave
LifeWorks (Employee Assistance Program)
Patterson Perks Program
The potential compensation range for this role is below. The final offer amount could exceed this range, based on various factors such as candidate location (geographical labor market), experience, and skills.
$109,100.00 - $145,433.33EEO StatementPatterson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or other related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.
Top Skills
What We Do
Patterson strengthens the oral and animal health markets in North America and the United Kingdom. From small, private practices to large group networks and production operations, we guide our customers with bold solutions and a personal touch. We are much more than a distributor – we are an indispensable partner.
Patterson Dental has strengthened the dental industry since our company’s founding in 1877. Today, Patterson Dental continues to partner with dental practices of all sizes to provide expertise, products, technologies and services needed to grow productive, modern practices, and keep them running smoothly.
No other company supports the animal health market like Patterson. We entered the animal health industry in 2001 with our acquisition of Webster Veterinary and expanded with our 2015 acquisition of Animal Health International, Inc. We provide all the technology, products, expertise and solutions needed to deliver exceptional animal care and drive profitability across the companion, production and equine markets.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
As a people-first company, Patterson promotes a culture that embodies and celebrates diversity and inclusivity. We believe our employees’ unique experiences and differences are what strengthen us and drive our success. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.
We are Patterson. We welcome you.
Disability Accommodation
If you require reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the hiring process, you may submit your request to HR by calling 1-866-234-2165 or by email to [email protected]. You can also mail your request to Patterson Companies, Inc. Attn: HR EEO Coordinator, 1031 Mendota Heights Rd, St. Paul, MN, 55120. Information received will be routed to a representative who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration of your request.
