Manager, Software Development

Planet DDS is a leading provider of a platform of cloud-based solutions that empowers growth-minded dental businesses. Now serving over 13,000 practices and 118,000 customers in North America, Planet DDS delivers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including Denticon Practice Management, Cloud 9 Ortho Practice Management, and Apteryx Cloud Imaging. Planet DDS is dedicated to enabling dental support organizations (DSOs) and groups to grow and thrive with technology that delivers seamless integrations, improved workflows, and future-proof scalability.    

We are seeking a Manager, Software Development, who is an organized, results driven leader who builds teams, tracks meaningful metrics, and delivers consistently. The manager should enjoy working across the organization to achieve successful business outcomes.  Within engineering, the manager will need to identify, align, and build individuals’ strengths to build high performing teams.  To achieve these results, the manager will need to be motivated, be able to take high-level direction and execute it, communicate clearly, understand technology deeply, and have a servant-leader mindset.     

Development managers play a crucial role in fostering and maintaining culture, professionalism, and team dynamics.  The candidate should be prepared to invest in the professional development and growth of their team(s).  Managers should have strong technical skills personally with particular attention to the entirety of what it takes to release successfully.  While staying on top of the day-to-day work is important, managers also must identify and implement productivity enhancements such as task automation, process improvements, deeper test coverage, and cross-training.  

JOB DUTIES  

• Create and maintain a culture of learning, collaboration, and excellence within their team(s), with people at the certain of your priorities 

• Manage multiple engineers or teams 

• Understand the key metrics that agile teams need to be effective and be able to implement and deliver consistently 

• Resource planning, hiring, team strategy, cross-functional coordination 

• Help drive technical decisions such as architecture, design patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and coding practices to support scalable, resilient, high-performing solutions 

• Proven track record of successfully managing competing priorities 

• Navigate ambiguity and deliver incrementally 

• Assess and raise risks across the Planet DDS solutions 

• Keep abreast of technology industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices, so you can recommend new tools and technologies 

• Ensure compliance with quality standards, regulatory and other business systems 

• Other duties as assigned 

Skills and Qualifications: 

• 8+ years of experience in full-lifecycle software engineering  

• 2+ years as a manager in an engineering organization 

• 5+ years as a developer on a multi-person engineering team 

• Hands on development experience with the Microsoft technology stack particularly .NET and SQL Server 

• Demonstrated success in mentoring and coaching engineers. 

• Deep understanding and experience with Agile principles and practices 

• Strong skills in interpersonal relationships and team building 

• Very strong collaboration and communication skills  

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or similar) or equivalent years of experience  

PLANET DDS CORE IDEOLOGY

Mission:

Dental software is broken. We aim to fix it.

Vision:

To be the first choice for growth-minded dental businesses.

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:

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 honest, 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

An Equal Opportunity Employer – Including Disability/Veterans