# Founding Lead Engineer at Toothy AI

- Company: Toothy AI (YC W25)
- What the company does: AI for insurance verification & billing at dental clinics. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.toothy.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Chicago, IL, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $100K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-03-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/toothy-ai/jobs/W8Hxj4B-founding-lead-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/toothy-ai-founding-lead-engineer/

## About the role

As a Lead Founding Engineer, you will work with the CTO in developing and maintaining the product with a small talented team of other founding employees. There is a lot to build, but you won’t be alone. You will be joined by a team of experienced founders, builders, designers, and dreamers. Amongst us are people who have raised over $100m. Scaled businesses to $12m ARR in 18 months. We have people who were instrumental in the earliest days of some of the largest dental software companies around today.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of software engineering across a variety of domains and technologies
- Proficiency in Python (our primary back-end) or a track record of picking up new languages/frameworks rapidly
- Healthcare / EDI knowledge is a huge plus (270/271, 837/277, payer integration)
- DevOps & Networking : Comfortable with multi-cloud, NAT traversal, containerization, CI/CD, logging/monitoring, and infrastructure security
- Data Engineering: Experience setting up reliable pipelines for dashboards, tracking, large batch jobs is a plus
- Building scalable systems from scratch: Experience owning projects where you had to start at nothing and scale to processing work at a large scale is a huge plus

Tags: Engineering