Senior Full Stack Engineer

Torch; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity

401(k) retirement plan

Health and dental insurance

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Onsite kitchen

Team events

Job summary

Torch in New York, NY is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a frontend emphasis to drive our RCM product and Marketplace. You’ll build user‑facing experiences used daily by dental practices, owning features end‑to‑end across the stack and collaborating with product, business, and other engineers.

You’ll work with AI-assisted workflows, shape solutions, and ship intuitive interfaces while contributing across both React/TypeScript and Django contexts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering with a strong frontend focus.
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience with TanStack Router/Query and modern frontend tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build fast, well-structured frontend experiences in React and TypeScript.
• Own features end-to-end—from components to API integration and deployment.
• Contribute to backend APIs using Python and FastAPI.
• Collaborate with product stakeholders to translate requirements into interfaces.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.
• Mentor engineers and advocate frontend quality across the team.
• Navigate two frontend contexts: React/TypeScript SPA and Django-based Marketplace.

Skills

React

TypeScript

TanStack Router

TanStack Query

Python

FastAPI

Frontend development

UI fundamentals

Job description

About Us

Torch Dental is a high-growth startup on a mission to empower healthcare providers starting with the $100B+ dental market. We’re building a new AI powered Revenue Cycle Management product from the ground up to transform how dental practices get paid. Insurance claims today involve significant manual work across follow up, payment posting, and reconciliation. We believe much of that work can be automated, and we’re building the product to make that possible. We also operate a Marketplace that modernizes dental supply procurement with transparent pricing and a seamless online purchasing experience.

Backed by $50M+ from premier investors like Bessemer, American Express, Health Velocity Capital and Felicis, we are a mission-driven team dedicated to solving tangible problems for small business owners. We prioritize customer obsession and a bias for action, fostering a collaborative culture where every engineer is encouraged to take ownership and deliver meaningful impact.

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who leans frontend to build our RCM product while also contributing to our established Marketplace. You'll spend the majority of your time building the experiences dental practice owners and their teams use every day, while owning features end to end across the stack.

We care deeply about customers and the product experience. You'll work closely with product, business stakeholders, and other engineers to understand customer problems, shape solutions, and ship experiences that feel simple and intuitive.

We expect AI to be part of how you build. Project planning , driving implementation with coding agents, and reviewing output with the same rigor you'd apply to a teammate's pull request. Our interview process reflects this. During the onsite, you'll build on your own laptop using your own AI tools and setup, so we can see how you actually work.

Key Responsibilities

• Build fast, well-structured frontend experiences in React and TypeScript

• Own features end-to-end — from component and state management through API integration and deployment.

• Contribute to backend APIs using Python and FastAPI

• Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into clean, usable interfaces

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards

• Mentor other engineers and advocate for frontend quality across the team

• Navigate two distinct frontend contexts — our RCM product is a React/TypeScript SPA; our Marketplace app is Django server-rendered with bundled JS

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong frontend focus

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript

• Solid understanding of UI fundamentals — layout, performance, and state management

• Hands-on experience with TanStack Router and TanStack Query (or strong opinions about routing and data fetching you're ready to apply)

• Backend range to build and maintain Python/FastAPI endpoints and data models

• Strong instincts for product quality, strong attention to detail and judgement to around implementation decisions

• Familiarity with coding agents and can articulate where they work well, where they fail, and how their workflow has evolved around them

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment flows, billing systems, or insurance-adjacent products

• Familiarity with Zod and schema-driven API clients

• Familiarity with TanStack Router and TanStack Query (our RCM product's stack)

• Background in B2B SaaS or workflow-heavy products

• Healthcare or dental industry experience

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages including early-stage equity

• 401(k) retirement plans through Empower

• Comprehensive health and dental insurance via Aetna

• Flexible time off policy for all employees

• Paid leave for new parents

• Fully provisioned kitchen for our onsite team

• A vibrant, collaborative culture featuring team events and celebrations of our collective milestones