Software Developer

at  Aspen Dental

The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 16,000 healthcare professionals and team members at more than 1,200 health and wellness offices across 46 states in four distinct categories: Dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and AZPetVet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools, and resources to grow its practices and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.
Our continued growth has created an opportunity to join our IT Team as a Software Developer - Front End.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Software Developer, you will join one of our teams focused on building websites for one or more of our brands. We’re modernizing our tech stack, moving from various technologies to a common platform using NextJS/React and headless CMS for content. We also have teams who have build out a robust GraphQL layer to modernize our RESTful APIs. Our platform engineering team has built a modern CI/CD pipeline with single-click deploys to our Kubernetes stack. These changes enable our teams to build up skills in A/B testing and more rapid experimentation for our brands.
We also expect our teams to have a strong focus on quality, with our teams leveraging tools such as Cypress and Playwright.
This role offers career growth to lead teams over time. The development team is based in Chicago and is expanding as we increasingly bring in-house and unify our tech stack for our brands. Our product, marketing, and UX teams are also in our new Chicago office.

EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology with 2+ years of hands-on experience.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript.
• Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.
• Familiarity with application state management concepts and libraries.
• Experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js).
• Experience integrating APIs with RESTful and GraphQL services.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms and security best practices.
• Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
  Salary: $105,000-140,000/year

• Build new and enhance existing websites.
• Build reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
• Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Ensure quality using unit tests and automation tests such as Cypress and Playwright.
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across various web-capable devices and browsers.
• Contribute new ideas to improve software practices and processes.
• Submit and conduct peer code reviews as part of our DevOps pipeline.