Staff Software Engineer

Jack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Healink, an AI care-coordination platform for dentistry, is seeking a Founding Engineer to work closely with the founders in building and scaling their core product. This hands-on role offers real ownership over frontend/backend systems and product direction.

The ideal candidate will have 4–6 years of software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in frontend development (React preferred), and a mindset focused on product and UX.

Healink offers a competitive salary of $120,000 to $160,000, along with founding-level ownership opportunities.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping production products.
• Bonus for healthcare or SaaS experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship core full-stack features.
• Own key patient-facing and dentist/staff-facing workflows.
• Collaborate directly with founders on product and architecture.

Skills

Frontend development (React preferred)

Full-stack development

AI infrastructure and LLM's

Production product experience

Product and UX mindset

Comfortable in fast-moving environments

Job description

Healink is an AI care-coordination platform for dentistry. We help practices convert proposed treatments into completed care by guiding patients through their clinical information and follow-ups via a modern patient experience. We’re live with paying practices and are now scaling the product and team. Healink is backed by VC. Healink was founded by sibling cofounders: an ex-Meta/Google software engineer and a practicing dentist / DSO clinical director, combining deep technical and clinical expertise. We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to work closely with the founders to build and scale Healink’s core product. This is a hands-on role with real ownership over frontend/backend/AI systems, product direction, and early technical decisions

Responsibiliti es

• Build and ship core full-stack features
• Own key patient-facing and dentist/staff-facing workflows and UX
• Collaborate directly with founders on product and architecture
• Help establish early engineering best practices
• Help hire/manage additional team members, and manage contractors

Qualificati ons

• 4–6 years of software engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in frontend development (React preferred) with solid full-stack skills
• Proficiency with AI infrastructure and LLM’s will be strongly prefered
• Experience shipping production products is a must have
• Comfortable operating in an early-stage, fast-moving environment
• Product and UX-minded; bonus for healthcare or SaaS experience
• Competitive salary: $120,000 to $160,000
• Founding-level ownership and real influence
• Solving a significant problem with a meaningful impact on oral health.
• Direct collaboration with an ex-Meta/Google engineer and a clinical founder
• A product already in market with paying customers
• Clear growth path as the engineering team scales