Engineering Manager - Platform

Actual compensation for roles will vary based on factors including the candidate's location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

Please note that compensation listed for U.S. based roles applies only to candidates working in the United States. Candidates hired outside the U.S. will receive regionally adjusted compensation.

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.

About the Team

The Platform team builds the core systems and tools that power all of Dandy Engineering. We’re responsible for infrastructure, developer experience, CI/CD, observability, shared backend services (like authentication, event streaming, and async workers), and security foundations.

Our mission is to make it easy for every Dandy engineer to build, ship, and operate software quickly and securely. We're scaling the platform to support a fast-growing engineering organization—improving developer velocity, building secure-by-default foundations, and driving adoption of best-in-class tools and automations across the stack. From selecting critical infrastructure to building internal abstractions and enforcing security through automation, this team plays a central role in Dandy’s ability to move fast with confidence.

What You’ll Do

• 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

What We’re Looking For

• 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

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!

Compensation Range: $201.5K - $237K