Staff Software Engineer

Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world's leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.

About the Role

Dandy is hiring software engineers to join our rapidly scaling technology organization. As one of Dandy's early engineers, you will play a key role in building our tech team. You'll constantly be challenged to learn new technologies and be given the freedom to solve problems on your own and learn by doing.

Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, PostgreSQL

What You'll Do

• 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.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ 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.

• 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.

• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates.

• Experience documenting coding and architectural decisions

• 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.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with TypeScript

• Time spent at a venture-backed startup during hyper-growth

• Relentlessly positive attitude, a strong sense of humor, and the ability to have fun at work

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Dandy is $210,000 - $240,000 plus equity. Actual compensation is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to the primary work location, candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.

In addition, Dandy offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off.

Dandy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and celebrate authenticity. 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.

Compensation Range: $210K - $240K