Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Us

Torch Dental is a high-growth startup focused on transforming the $100B+ dental market. We develop an AI-powered Revenue Cycle Management product and a Marketplace for modernizing dental supply procurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Build fast, well-structured frontend experiences in React and TypeScript
• Own features end-to-end — from component and state management through API integration and deployment
• Contribute to backend APIs using Python and FastAPI
• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into clean, usable interfaces
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards
• Mentor other engineers and advocate for frontend quality across the team
• Navigate two distinct frontend contexts — our RCM product is a React/TypeScript SPA; our Marketplace app is Django server-rendered with bundled JS

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong frontend focus
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript
• Solid understanding of UI fundamentals — layout, performance, and state management
• Hands-on experience with TanStack Router and TanStack Query (or strong opinions about routing and data fetching you're ready to apply)
• Backend range to build and maintain Python/FastAPI endpoints and data models
• Strong instincts for product quality, strong attention to detail and judgement to around implementation decisions
• Familiarity with coding agents and can articulate where they work well, where they fail, and how their workflow has evolved around them

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment flows, billing systems, or insurance-adjacent products
• Familiarity with Zod and schema-driven API clients
• Familiarity with TanStack Router and TanStack Query (our RCM product's stack)
• Background in B2B SaaS or workflow-heavy products
• Healthcare or dental industry experience

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages including early-stage equity
• 401(k) retirement plans through Empower
• Comprehensive health and dental insurance via Aetna
• Flexible time off policy for all employees
• Paid leave for new parents
• Fully provisioned kitchen for our onsite team
• A vibrant, collaborative culture featuring team events and celebrations of our collective milestones