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.
Dandy is hiring a Platform Engineer (Frontend) 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 systems and tooling to support our rapidly growing product engineering function. You’ll work to educate teams on frontend best practices, and help us create a delightful engineering experience for product teams.
Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, GraphQL, rsbuild, Playwright, Storybook, Sentry, Fullstory, Postgresql, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Chronosphere, Temporal, Buildkite
What You'll Do
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Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
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Focus on the developer experience and productivity across our frontend applications.
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Work with and educate product teams on frontend best practices, including accessibility and testing.
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Author and contribute to internal libraries that emphasize intuitive interfaces and composability.
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Work with the design team to improve the consistency and usages of our design system.
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Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
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Reinvent an analog experience and disrupt a legacy industry through novel and scalable system design.
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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.
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Advocate for improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance.
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Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
What We're Looking For
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5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high growth startup environment.
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Expertise in frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and popular frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js
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Strong familiarity with build tools and package managers (e.g., webpack, esbuild, vite, rsbuild, npm, yarn).
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Experience improving, maintaining and debugging frontend infrastructure, from build tools through the CI pipeline and to the CDN.
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Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi).
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Experience creating and maintaining automated CI/CD build processes for multiple environments.
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A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset. We are a small but mighty team and everyone must be aligned on our goals.
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The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
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Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
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Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
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Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills.
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Ability to thrive in a remote-first organization.
Bonus Points For
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TypeScript
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GraphQL
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Frontend build tooling
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Experience building TypeScript libraries with great developer UX and evolving those libraries over time.
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Comfort with Design System maintenance
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Time spent at a venture-backed startup during hyper-growth
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Relentlessly positive attitude, a strong sense of humor, and the ability to have fun at work
REQ ID: J-349
For full time positions, we offer 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 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 move at Dandy speed and do everything in our power to meet your needs.
Compensation Range: $200K - $222.5K
