Staff Software Engineer, Dandy
Platform
$221.1-268k
+ Equity.
Fully digital dental lab
Open for applications
Fully digital dental lab
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$221.1-268k
+ Equity.
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
- An expert in distributed systems and scaling backend services
- An expert in Public Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes
- Experience with complex CI/CD pipelines for poly-artifact monorepos
- Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment
- Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities within a cloud environment
- Experience with building observability platforms (i.e., metrics, logging and tracing)
- 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
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
- Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills
Desirable
- TypeScript
- PubSub
- GraphQL
- Postgresql Administration (operations)
- Buildkite
What the job involves
- Dandy is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join our rapidly scaling technology organization
- As a member of Dandy's Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in the success of our team and company
- You'll design and build scalable infrastructure and systems to support our rapidly growing product engineering function
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team
- Collaborate with stakeholders within the tech org to influence overall objectives and long-term goals of your team
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others
- Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Reinvent an analog experience and disrupt a legacy industry through novel and scalable system design
- Collaborate with Product Engineers and other stakeholders within Engineering, Product and Data to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
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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