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. To learn more, visit: Planet DDS.
Development managers play a crucial role in fostering and maintaining culture, professionalism, and team dynamics. The candidate should be prepared to invest in team member professional development and growth for both technical and soft skills. 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.
This is a hybrid position working out of our Akron, OH office.
Job Duties:
• Create and maintain a culture of excellence within her/his geographically distributed team(s)
• Understand the key metrics that agile teams need to be effective and be able to implement and deliver these consistently
• Help drive technical decisions such as architecture, design patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and coding practices to support scalable, resilient, high-performing solutions
• Handle multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Navigate ambiguity and deliver incrementally in the right direction
• 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
• Contribute to engineering department strategy, goal setting, processes, and budget
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, regulatory and other business systems
• Other duties as assigned
Skills and Qualifications:
• 5-7 years in full-lifecycle software engineering
• 3+ years as a manager/lead 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, SQL Server and React.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring and coaching engineers
• Deep understanding and experience with Agile principles and practices
• Strong skills in interpersonal relationships and team building
• Excellent English communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant major or equivalent years of experience
• Each of the following would be a plus:
o Broad work in commercial software – off the shelf delivered on premise or SaaS (preferred)
o Extensive experience with cloud product development and release
o CI/CD – both constructing the pipeline and establishing best practices
o Azure
o Dental industry knowledge
o Imaging, particularly DICOM, experience
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.
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