Staff Software Engineer, Dandy
$230-257k
Actual compensation is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to the primary work location, candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
Fully digital dental lab
Open for applications
Fully digital dental lab
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$230-257k
Actual compensation is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to the primary work location, candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To become the best digital dental lab for every dentist.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high growth startup environment
- Ability to understand how our business functions and how challenges and bottlenecks can be addressed through the Engineering team
- A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset. We are a small but mighty team and everyone must be aligned on our goals
- The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates
- Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
- Ability to thrive in a remote-first organization
Desirable
- Experience with TypeScript
- Time spent at a venture-backed startup during hyper-growth
What the job involves
- Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope
- Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team
- Exert significant influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team
- Provide mentorship for all Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
- Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
Our take
Dentistry has long relied on outdated practices. Dandy was created to modernize and simplify dental operations by integrating technology into every aspect of the dental practice. Its goal is to streamline workflows, making dental practices more efficient and easier to manage.
While other startups have tried to bring technology to the dental field, Dandy distinguishes itself by understanding the industry's complexity and respecting the way dentists operate. Rather than overwhelming practitioners with a complete overhaul, Dandy introduces new features gradually, such as digitizing dental labs for procedures like crowns and implants.
Dandy aims to provide a complete "business-in-a-box" solution that allows dentists to focus on patient care while the platform handles administrative and operational tasks. While this vision has the potential to bring immense value to a field in need of innovation, the challenge lies in overcoming dentistry's resistance to change. Patience and persistence will be key as Dandy reshapes how dental professionals run their practices.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2019
$4.4m
SEED
Total funding: $4.4m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans: Your health is our top priority. We offer a range of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans so you can choose what works best for you. Some plans include employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), and we offer options that cover 100% of employee-only premiums.
- Flexibility, built-in: At Dandy, we flex-first, which means trusting you to own your day and deliver, working where and how you want. We believe that by embracing flexibility, we empower everyone to balance work and life in the way that works best for them. Some roles need to be on-site due to the nature of the work.
- Investing in your wellbeing: Your wellbeing is more than just physical health—that’s why our benefits are designed to support you in all aspects of life. From mental health resources included in our healthcare plans to perks like pet insurance, a gym stipend, and access to discount platforms like Perkspot, we offer a range of programs to help you feel your best—inside and outside of work.
- Shared Success: We believe in shared success—when the business wins, our employees do too. Through performance-based bonuses and equity opportunities, our team shares in the impact we create together.
Company HQ
New York, NY
Leadership
Toni Oloko
(Co-Founder)Previously worked in Special Projects at goPuff. Before that founded PracticeGigs which they went on to sell.
Daniel Hanover
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Product Manager at Yelp and as a Software Engineer at Facebook. Studied Management and Technology at Wharton.
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