Front-End Software Engineer, CAD/3D Systems

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: (Not provided in the description)

Dandy is transforming the massive ($200B) but antiquated dental industry. Backed by some of the world's leading venture capital investors, we are on an ambitious mission to integrate and simplify every function of the dental practice through technology. By building the operating system for every dental office in America, Dandy is empowering dentists with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practice, their people, and their patients.

This role focuses on building digital products and technological infrastructure to support a vertically integrated pipeline for the manufacturing of dental prosthetics. You will build beautiful, interactive UIs and 3D visualizations for CAD-type programs with integrated AI and interface with 3D model backend processing pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver practical solutions to real-world 3D graphics problems across our tech org.
• Author and contribute to internal libraries that emphasize intuitive interfaces and composability.
• Build interactive web tools that allow doctors, lab technicians, and patients to interact with 3D scans and medical image volumes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams of product managers, designers, software engineers, computer vision engineers, dentists, and 3D dental designers.
• Design features which enable users with various levels of 3D expertise to reach their maximum potential more rapidly.
• Assess pros and cons of different processes in terms of speed, memory use, visual quality, and robustness; get down in the weeds of improving these when necessary.
• Translate user interactions to data which can be used in machine learning tasks.
• Advocate for new technical architecture and innovation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth environment.
• A portfolio of relevant work.
• 3D model or visualization programming experience (Three.js, WebGL).
• Experience developing user interfaces (UIs) using React, including building reusable components, managing state, and working with React hooks and context.
• Understanding of 3D data structures, matrices, transforms, algorithms, and rendering techniques.
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript and its ecosystem, and experience developing large JS/TS applications; up-to-date on the latest JavaScript and design technology, trends, and industry news.
• Experience with backend systems and databases is a plus.

Company Information

• The company is backed by leading venture capital investors.
• The role involves working with a vertically integrated pipeline for dental prosthetics manufacturing.