Lead Backend Engineer - SDE 3

About Dentira

Dentira is one of the fastest-growing, profitable healthcare startups, transforming clinic operations across multiple countries. Our flagship product revolutionized dental procurement with the world’s first real-time price and product comparison engine for dental supplies across the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Building on this, our new Lab Platform streamlines case creation and management by connecting clinics, intraoral scanners, and labs. We’re also leveraging advanced AI to solve complex challenges like automatic invoice reconciliation and procedure cost prediction solutions with broad applicability across healthcare. As we expand into adjacent verticals, our goal is to achieve 10X growth in the next 3 years.

We are looking for a Backend engineer with 5+ years of experience in building performant, scalable and reliable systems for product companies and startups. The candidate is expected to have strong problem-solving skills with a proven experience of leveraging distributed systems to build elegant solutions to complex real world problems. Should have worked in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.

Primary Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building microservices with Node.js (Typescript preferred)
• Proven experience with NoSQL and SQL databases such as Mongo, MySQL etc. Adept in database design
• Proficient in building REST APIs using web frameworks (Express.js/Nest.js)
• Should have a solid grasp of HTTP fundamentals
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and message brokers such as RabbitMQ, Kafka etc
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms

Good to have:

• Worked with MERN stack
• Awareness of containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
• Open-source contributions

Perks:

• Generous Health/Life Insurance plan which includes family and parents (applicable for full-time Indian employees)
• An open culture with ample freedom for decision-making, where you get to play a pivotal role in shaping the next B2B tech unicorn
• ESOPs for the right candidate