Lead Software Engineer, Product
Torch Dental
Software Engineering, Product
New York, NY, USA
USD 160k-200k / year
Posted on Oct 29, 2025
About Us:
Torch Dental is a rapidly growing start-up on a mission to improve the lives of healthcare providers by simplifying supply ordering, providing transparent pricing, and modernizing a previously outdated process. Torch is targeting the $100+ billion office-based healthcare supply industry, starting with dental practices. Our innovative e-commerce platform streamlines procurement for dental practices while securing the best prices for products. We are a close-knit team that enjoys collaborating 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 Tech Lead at Torch, you’ll drive the evolution of a fast-growing commerce platform that powers millions of dollars in transactions and supports thousands of dental practices nationwide. You’ll lead end-to-end product initiatives, owning technical strategy, execution, and measurable business outcomes. You’ll architect systems that fuel our marketplace, streamline operations, and unlock intelligent automation—while guiding a team toward high-impact delivery.
You will:
- 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 systemsIdentify 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.
What we are looking for:
- 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 similarA 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
Ideal candidates will also have:
- 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
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary Range: $160K - $200K
- 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