Dandy is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform team. In this role, you will be responsible for the infrastructure, developer productivity tools, and shared backend systems that power all of Dandy Engineering. You will define and drive the strategy to improve developer velocity across the organization.
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 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.
- 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.
Team & Environment
The Platform team builds the core systems and tools that power all of Dandy Engineering.
Benefits & Compensation
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Mental health support
- Parental planning resources
- Retirement savings options
- Generous paid time off
Work Mode
This role supports global work arrangements.
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.
