Torch Dental · 2 months ago
Lead Software Engineer, Product
New York, New York
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expTorch Dental is a rapidly growing start-up focused on improving healthcare supply ordering for dental practices. As a Tech Lead, you will drive product initiatives, own technical strategy, and lead a team to enhance the e-commerce platform while ensuring high-impact delivery.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Drive features and improvements from ideation to delivery, collaborating with Product, Design, and Ops to define scope and success metrics - with ownership across both frontend experience and backend systems
Own full-stack experiences that feel fast and intuitive to users, aligning backend architecture and frontend execution to deliver measurable impact
Develop and optimize data pipelines that synchronize product, pricing, and order data across systems
Identify opportunities through metrics—instrumenting key product/technical KPIs, analyzing trends, and turning insights into roadmap inputs
Integrate intelligent automation and LLM-based tooling to improve operational efficiency and user experience (e.g. invoice parsing, catalog maintenance, product insights)
Contribute to frontend development as needed to ensure cohesive end-to-end delivery
Partner with engineering leadership to define architecture standards, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers on best practices
You’ll be a key driver of Torch’s next stage of growth—building scalable, intelligent systems that healthcare providers rely on every day, and ensuring we’re solving the right problems with measurable impact
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a professional engineering environment, with a track record of delivering meaningful product outcomes
Strong experience working across the stack with technologies such as Python, Node.js, or Java, and modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React) when needed
Proven ability to own features end-to-end, from problem discovery and scoping to implementation, instrumentation, and iteration
Familiarity with web frameworks such as Flask, Express, Rails, or similar
A product mindset - motivated by building impactful user-facing experiences and solving real customer problems
A collaborative, low-ego attitude with a willingness to learn, mentor, and elevate team standards
Preferred
Experience influencing product roadmaps and helping prioritize features based on impact and feasibility
Experience partnering closely with cross-functional teams - Product, Design, and Ops
Experience shaping frontend patterns, design systems, or full-stack product delivery
Curiosity about how large language models (LLMs) and automation can improve real-world workflows and backend systems
Background in healthcare, logistics, or e-commerce systems
Benefits
Comprehensive medical, dental, and wellness benefits
401k benefits with Empower
Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
Maternity and Paternity leave
Medical and dental coverage with Aetna
Work from home stipend
Commuter benefits for hybrid employees
Fully stocked pantry and fridge for hybrid employees
An employee-driven culture with happy hours, team events, and other initiatives to celebrate our many successes
Company
Torch Dental
Torch Dental is a rapidly growing start-up whose mission is to improve the lives of healthcare providers by simplifying supply ordering, providing transparent pricing, and modernizing a previously outdated ordering process.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Drew Werner
Co-Founder and CTO
Alicia Evans
Talent Acquisition Partner
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