About Us:
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of healthcare providers by simplifying supply ordering, providing transparent pricing, and modernizing a previously outdated ordering process. Torch is targeting the $100+ billion office-based healthcare supply industry, starting with dental practices. Our innovative e-commerce software platform streamlines healthcare professionals’ procurement process and secures the best prices for products.
We are a close‑knit team that enjoys working together every day to solve real‑world problems. We obsess over customer satisfaction, promote a strong bias for action, encourage team members to engage in impactful work, and foster a one team culture. Our goal is to create better solutions to help healthcare professionals succeed, and we are looking for people like you to help bring this vision to life.
Your Impact:
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Torch, you’ll play a key role in evolving our platform’s architecture, building high-performance distributed systems, and developing agentic workflows that power our next generation of AI-enabled product experiences. You’ll design the backend systems that support LLM-powered features at scale - whether that means orchestrating web or voice agents to fetch data, building reliable workflows and safeguards for ingestion and normalization, or ensuring everything operates securely and compliantly.
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 modules.
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.
What we are looking for:
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.
Bonus:
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.
Compensation and Benefits:
Salary Range: $190K-$230K
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
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
