Senior Software Engineer I, Platform

Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $400B. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we’re on an ambitious mission to simplify and modernize every function of the dental practice through technology. As we expand our reach globally, Dandy is building the operating system for dental offices around the world—empowering clinicians and their teams with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practices, their people, and their patients.

About the Role

Dandy is hiring a Senior 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.

Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, GraphQL, Postgresql, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Chronosphere, Temporal

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.

• Improve developer experience and productivity across our range of software repositories.

• 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.

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth startup environment

• Experience in Public Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes

• Experience creating and maintaining automated CI/CD build processes for multiple environments

• Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi)

• Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment

• Experience with 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.

Bonus Points For

• TypeScript

• PubSub

• GraphQL

• Postgresql Administration (operations)

• Buildkite

Req ID: J-835

For full-time positions, Dandy offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive, and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate. Our local benefits packages typically include healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off—ensuring our team members are supported no matter where they live and work.

Dandy is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Dandy also fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. If you require any accommodations for your interview or have any questions beforehand, rest assured that we will do everything we can to meet your needs. Visit Dandy Careers for more!

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