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Torch Dental · 2 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Agentic Workflows

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$190K/yr - $230K/yr

5+ years exp

Torch Dental is a rapidly growing start-up focused on improving healthcare supply ordering for dental practices. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build high-performance distributed systems and develop workflows that support AI-enabled product experiences.

Computer Software

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, integrate, and operate LLM-powered and agentic workflows for claims data

Build and maintain HIPAA-compliant systems for sensitive healthcare data

Lead decisions around security, compliance, cost, performance, and scaling of AI workloads

Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for AI pipelines and production models

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to integrate AI capabilities into Torch’s platform

Mentor and guide other engineers on best practices on both backend engineering and agentic workflows

Qualification

Cloud platforms AWSCloud platforms GCPCloud platforms AzureBuilding scalable systemsHIPAA complianceAI infrastructure projectsContainerization/orchestrationInfrastructure-as-code toolingCollaboration with non-engineersMentoring engineers

Required

5+ years of experience in software engineering

Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and deploying secure, compliant workloads

Demonstrated record of building scalable, secure, and reliable systems

Comfortable collaborating with non-engineers, including product managers, designers, and business stakeholders

Preferred

Experience leading AI infrastructure projects end-to-end in a startup environment

Contributed to architecture or coding standards for engineering teams

Experience in early-stage product ideation and design for AI-enabled features

Hands-on experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi) for provisioning and managing cloud resources

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.

Founded in 2018

New York, New York, US

51-200 employees

http://www.torchdental.com/

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