Engineering Manager - Platform - Remote

Overview

Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $200B. 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.

In Short

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive, and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate
• Local benefits packages typically include healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off
• Support for team members no matter where they live and work