Staff Software Engineer

Lead the Future of Dentistry. Overjet is the world-leader in dental AI. Already, thousands of dental providers and insurers rely on our platform to deliver the best possible care. Now, we’re looking for talented people to fulfill our mission: improve oral health for all. Overjet is where builders become leaders. Everyone here loves to make new things: new products, new partnerships, new content, and a new category of AI technology. And as Overjet grows ridiculously fast, so will you. Simply put, there’s no better place to accelerate your career. Come join us! The Mission and the Hard Part Our AI only helps a practice or an insurer if the software underneath it is reliable. When a deployment goes wrong, a service falls over at 2 a.m., or a system makes a quiet mistake, the people who depend on us feel it before we do. A Staff Engineer is the person who keeps that from happening, and who makes everyone around them better at building software that doesn’t break. You’ll work across Engineering, Product, and our AI team to set the technical standard for the systems you touch, and you’ll do it from our Lahore hub alongside colleagues in other time zones. Nobody hands you a finished architecture or a list of tasks. You’ll take on ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems, make the design calls, and own what happens when your systems run in production, including being on call, as every engineer on this team is. If building dependable, well-designed software for healthcare, and raising the bar for the engineers around you, sounds like a fun problem, keep reading. What You’ll Own - The design and delivery of the backend systems you build. That means choosing sound architecture, writing clean and maintainable code, and seeing a system through from design to production. - A culture of incident-free deployments. That means proactive monitoring with logs, dashboards, and alerts, so problems are caught by us before a customer feels them. - A framework for safe, low-touch rollouts. That means feature flags, integration tests, and automated validations that let the team ship often without fear. - Repeatable, standardized processes that can be handed to automation, including MCP agents running from internal runbooks. That means organizing work so routine operations stop needing a human. - The technical bar for your team. That means thoughtful code review, clear design reviews, and mentoring engineers so the whole group raises its game, not just you. - Production operations for what you ship. That means taking part in on-call rotations, both scheduled and ad hoc, and learning from every incident. What Makes the Right Candidate Keep Reading You’ve spent a decade building and running production systems, and you came out of it with strong instincts for what fails at scale and what to do before it does. You go deep on databases, concurrency, and event-driven design, and you treat monitoring and rollout safety as part of the engineering, not an afterthought. The traits that matter most here are high agency and intensity: you chase problems to the root rather than waiting for them to be assigned, and you hold a high standard when no one is watching. If you want a role with a stable, well-scoped codebase and no on-call, this isn’t it. - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience welcome - Skills: Strong Python with a focus on clean architecture; extensive experience with concurrency and event-driven architecture; extensive SQL and Postgres experience; Docker and Kubernetes; data modeling and database design; cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform. A plus: C# and Windows systems, MCP and process automation, and knowledge of data security and compliance standards (such as HIPAA) or experience with sensitive patient data or electronic health records - Experience: 10+ years of software engineering, including experience designing, building, and operating production backend systems Overjet's Values - Excellence: Aim Higher - Velocity: Quickly Deliver Results - Ownership: Go the Extra Mile - Win-win: Care Deeply Company Recognition - Included on Best Places to Work by BuiltIn lists in 2026 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/overjet_were-incredibly-proud-to-share-that-overjet-activity-7414346196640718848-cFGG?rcm=ACoAAChRVxsB6jrIO04hl4zDCmIVA0qDSepyiRA&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share: #3 overall in the US, #1 in NYC, #1 in San Francisco, and #2 in Boston - #4 on FastCompanys's Most Innovative Companies list in Healthcare for 2026 https://www.fastcompany.com/91497221/healthcare-most-innovative-companies-2026 - Named one of the TIME Best Inventions of 2024 https://www.overjet.com/blog/overjet-named-to-time-best-inventions-of-2024 - Recognized in Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplaces in America 2024 https://www.newsweek.com/top-20-most-loved-workplaces-america-2024-1960025 - Won the Dental Health category at the Digital Health Awards 2024 https://www.digitalhealthhub.org/awards/2024/2024-winnersand 2024 Best Places to Work by Built In https://www.overjet.com/blog/overjet-is-one-of-built-in-s-best-startups-to-work-for-in-2024 - Recognized as one of the Top Startups of 2023 by LinkedIn https://www.overjet.com/blog/overjet-named-to-linkedin-s-2023-top-startups-list-in-united-states - Included on the definitive 2022 Forbes AI 50 https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overjet-named-to-forbes-ai-50-list-of-most-promising-ai-companies-shaping-the-future-301544947.html EEOC Overjet is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications for this job, we strongly encourage you to apply! If you are a Colorado resident: Please contact us by emailing [email protected] to receive compensation and benefits information for this role. Please include the job title in the subject line of the email.