Software Engineer, Product

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of healthcare providers by simplifying supply ordering, providing transparent pricing, and modernizing a previously outdated process.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.

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.

• 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 systems. Identify 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

• 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 similar
• A 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

• 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

• 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

$160,000 - $200,000 a year