Engineering Manager, Dandy
Platform
$201.5-237k
+ Equity
Fully digital dental lab
Job no longer available
Fully digital dental lab
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$201.5-237k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To become the best digital dental lab for every dentist.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years experience as an engineering manager and 5+ years as a software engineer
- Proven success leading platform, infrastructure, or developer tools teams in high-growth environments
- Experience designing and scaling developer platforms, CI/CD systems, or internal frameworks
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), observability, and devops automation
- Passion for improving developer experience and reducing friction in engineering workflows
- Strategic thinking around how to incorporate emerging tools like AI coding assistants to improve productivity
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across functions
- Bias for action and a pragmatic mindset when making technical trade-offs
What the job involves
- The Platform team builds the core systems and tools that power all of Dandy Engineering
- We’re responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, CI/CD, observability, shared backend services (like authentication, event streaming, and async workers), and security foundations
- Our mission is to make it easy for every Dandy engineer to build, ship, and operate software quickly and securely
- We're scaling the platform to support a fast-growing engineering organization—improving developer velocity, building secure-by-default foundations, and driving adoption of best-in-class tools and automations across the stack
- From selecting critical infrastructure to building internal abstractions and enforcing security through automation, this team plays a central role in Dandy’s ability to move fast with confidence
- Lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for infrastructure, developer productivity, and shared backend systems
- Define and drive the strategy to improve developer velocity across the organization, including tooling, workflows, and infrastructure
- Partner with engineering leadership to define how we adopt and operationalize AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Devin) to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and workflow automation
- Establish application security foundations through tool selection, workflow automation, issue remediation, and sharing secure development practices
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Security, and Engineering teams to align platform investments with business needs
- Establish and uphold best practices around reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- Recruit, mentor and develop engineers, helping grow technical leaders within the team
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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