About Us:
Planet DDS is the leading provider of cloud-enabled dental software solutions serving over 10,000 practices in North America with over 60,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of solutions for dental practices including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx XVWeb Digital Imaging, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices in North America
Overview
Join a new team responsible for taking the dental industry's market-leading SaaS product to the next level! The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, critical thinker with excellent communication skills. We're seeking someone who can take high-level direction, gain consensus, and drive tasks to completion.
The ideal candidate for this team doesn’t shy away from learning something new or experimenting with technologies to find the right solution. A friendly, hard-working, positive, and pragmatic person with a true passion for solving problems with technology will fit in well with our dynamic team.
This role is hybrid working 1-2x per week out of our Glasgow office.
Responsibilities & Duties
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Write high-quality, reusable, scalable and testable code following best practices within the relevant frameworks.
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A ‘quality-first’ mindset
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Mentor juniors and collaborate with colleagues.
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Participate in pair programming with other engineers.
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Contribute to and lead code reviews, design reviews, effort estimates, task breakdowns, and feature development efforts.
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Advocating best coding/testing/team practices.
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Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design and deploy new features.
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Contribute towards continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of Planet DDS products.
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Learn about the latest tools and patterns consistent with your role.
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Other duties as assigned.
Experience
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5+ years of experience in a software engineering/development role.
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Strong full-stack engineering experience with an emphasis on backend (C#).
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Track record as a strong individual contributor.
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Experience working with datasets / databases (particularly SQL Server).
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Experience working with cloud providers to build/deploy/host solutions (ideally Microsoft Azure).
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Experience in a CI/CD environment.
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Very strong collaboration skills and a confident communicator.
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Ability to engage throughout the R&D to achieve goals.
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Experience in decoupling components from monolithic systems is a plus.
About You
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You respect and share our values: Collaborative, Empathetic, Accountable, Trustworthy & Ambitious.
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You love working with teams of smart and driven people who are excited to solve challenging problems and believe collaboration is key to success.
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You can talk about complex software systems and have ideas on how to effectively build high-quality, performant, deployable, and easily supportable software.
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You love to cover your code with adequate unit, integration, and performance tests.
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You are tenacious about instrumenting and measuring the performance of code to find bottlenecks and improve performance.
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You exhibit dogged determination to get to the root of problems.
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You care about best-practices and evangelizing them with the team.
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You are excited about proposing new techniques and methodologies to improve the quality and efficiency of our software.
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You can clearly convey your thoughts, enjoy presenting what you’ve done, and can cater your message to audiences both technical and non-technical.
Behavior and Scope
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You raise issues early when you see obstacles to achieving a goal and work to find solutions.
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You hold your team accountable for their best possible efforts.
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When finding an issue in another team, you raise the matter tactfully with that team.
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When discussing work, you engage in discussion around business impact.
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You can develop large parts of systems on your own to support products.
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You routinely work without needing major direction or attention to achieve success in your role.
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You typically work on systems in multiple domains; you may require some guidance to complete complex work to achieve success.
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You own major functionality in a product and can diagnose issues, determine root cause, and recommend a resolution.
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You actively mentor others and seek accountability.
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You are comfortable in challenging others, including management, to make sure we do the right thing.
Top Skills
What We Do
Planet DDS is the leading provider of cloud-based dental software solutions serving over 10,000 practices in North America with over 60,000 users. The company delivers a complete platform of solutions for dental practices including Denticon Practice Management, Apteryx Digital Imaging, and Legwork Patient Relationship Management. Planet DDS is committed to creating value for its dental practice clients by solving the most urgent challenges facing today’s dental practices in North America.
PDDS Core Ideology
MISSION: Why Are We Here?
Unleashing dentists and their staff to focus on patient care
VISION: Where Are We Headed?
In the next five years, Planet DDS will remain the leading provider of cloud-based
technology solutions in North America, expanding to serve more than 25,000 dental practices.
Values: How Do We Get There?
To encourage measurable progress toward our vision and make the best
decisions on behalf of employees and customers, we adopted a set of common values.
At Planet DDS, We Are:
Collaborative
Working independently and across teams, we create scalable solutions to enable company growth.
Empathetic
We are educated on the experience of our customers and feel vested in their success.
Accountable
We feel ownership for the quality of our work and take pride in the positive outcomes.
Trustworthy
We operate with integrity and honesty, making promises we know that we can keep.
Ambitious
We are driven by our ability to make a long-term, positive impact on the lives of dental market leaders.
