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.

This role is mostly remote working 1x per week out of either our Seattle, WA, Newport Beach, CA or Phoenix, AZ offices.

Overview 

A software engineer helps build and enhance SaaS and mobile products for dental offices and dental groups. To be successful, the engineer will need to be self-motivated, a critical thinker, be able to take high-level direction, communicate clearly, gain consensus, and drive projects to completion in a very fast-paced environment.

A software engineer doesn’t shy away from learning something new or experimenting with technologies to find the right solution. A friendly, hard-working, positive person with a true passion for solving problems with technology will fit in well with our dynamic team.

Duties 

• Deliver 

  • high-quality, reusable, modular, and scalable code following OOP principles and best practices within the relevant frameworks 

  • automated unit tests 

• Lead feature development efforts 

• Fix software defects as needed 

• Contribute to and lead code reviews, design reviews, effort estimates, task breakdowns, and other team discussions 

• Mentor other engineers 

• On-board new engineers 

• Participate in pair programming with other developers 

• Other duties as assigned 

Responsibilities 

• Help your team estimate and commit to work then deliver as committed 

• Meaningfully test all your work including writing automated tests whenever possible 

• Follow coding and other standards per team practices 

• Participate in the architecture and technology roadmap including research, prototyping, and rolling out new technologies/patterns 

• Assess and communicate risks across all Legwork software 

• Work with the existing engineering team on continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of Legwork products 

• Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design and deploy new features 

• Learn about the latest tools and patterns consistent with your role 

• Participate in our Agile processes—from updating Jira to reflecting meaningfully in retrospectives and everything in between 

Qualifications 

• 8 or more years of experience in a software engineering/development role 

• Experience in the following:

  • C# - 7 years 

  • TypeScript/JavaScript - 5 years 

  • SQL Server or Postgres - 5 years 

  • React - 3 years

  • .NET Core - 3 years 

• 7 or more years of experience in the full software development lifecycle 

• Demonstrated mastery of OOP and commonly used design patterns, practices, and algorithms

• 5 or more years of experience working with cloud technologies (plus for GCP) 

• 5 or more years of experience working in software development teams

• Experience in at least one Agile software development methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) 

• Strong collaboration and communication skills 

• Ability to engage throughout the department and the company to achieve goals 

• Experience in a CI/CD environment 

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience

• Any of the following would be a plus: 

  • Dental industry knowledge 

  • Node.JS

  • Kafka 

  • Debezium 

  • Kubernetes 

  • Elastic Search 

About You 

• You respect and share our values 

• You love working with teams of smart and driven people who are excited to solve challenging problems 

• You can talk about complex software systems and have ideas on how to build quality, performant, and easily supportable software most effectively 

• You believe that code-reviews, giving them and asking for them, are important to delivering quality a product 

• You love to cover your code with adequate unit, integration, and performance tests 

• You are adamant about instrumenting and measuring the performance of code to find bottlenecks and improve performance 

• You exhibit dogged determination to get to the root of problems 

• You care about best-practices and evangelizing them with the team 

• You like to research and propose new techniques and methodologies to improve quality and efficiency of our software 

• 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 

• You raise issues early when you see obstacles to achieving a goal and work to find solutions. 

• You volunteer to get involved in the solution even if it is beyond your own team or role. 

• You evangelize good practices both within and outside your team. 

• You actively help solve cross-team issues by assisting other teams. 

• You speak up on more broad issues in the domain beyond your own work, such as processes, company issues or large projects. 

• You guide the team in designing major components of systems and products. 

• You lead the design and development of large and critical areas of the product. 

• You’re able to reason about the purpose of each component in a system and how they interact with each other to support the product. 

• You propose and advocate for significant new features and actively affect change. 

• You rarely require guidance to complete complex work to achieve success. 

• You often lead and guide other team members. 

• You actively mentor others and seek accountability. 

Planet DDS Core Values

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.