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لاہور, پنجاب, پاکستان
Onsite
Lead the Future of Dentistry.
Overjet is the world-leader in dental AI. Already, thousands of dental providers and insurers rely on our platform to deliver the best possible care. Now, we’re looking for talented people to fulfill our mission: improve oral health for all.
Overjet is where builders become leaders. Everyone here loves to make new things: new products, new partnerships, new content, and a new category of AI technology. And as Overjet grows ridiculously fast, so will you.
Simply put, there’s no better place to accelerate your career. Come join us!
The Mission and the Hard Part
A small engineering pod is only as strong as the person leading it. Without a leader who is technically credible and who invests in the people around them, delivery slips, quality drifts, and talented engineers in Lahore end up disconnected from the teams and decisions that shape the product. That’s where you come in. You’ll lead a pod of 3 to 6 engineers on our Pakistan team and own the technical direction and delivery of your product area, working closely with Product, neighboring engineering teams, and our AI team to ship reliable software that customers depend on.
This is a player-coach seat, not a pure management role. You’ll spend real time in the codebase designing, reviewing, and shipping, while also running 1:1s, coaching your engineers, and holding yourself accountable for what the pod delivers. You’ll do both across time zones, with stakeholders who aren’t in the room. If keeping your hands on the code while growing a high-trust team sounds energizing rather than exhausting, keep reading.
What You’ll Own
The technical direction of your pod’s product area. That means defining the architecture and roadmap, and making the call between near-term delivery and long-term maintainability.
Delivery against commitments and SLAs. That means breaking the roadmap into scoped, sequenced work, running sprints, and unblocking the team before slips become misses.
The growth of 3 to 6 engineers. That means regular 1:1s, honest feedback, career development, and a team that holds itself to a high bar for quality and ownership.
Production quality for the systems your team runs. That means code review standards, testing discipline, monitoring, on-call, and incident response that fit the stakes.
The working relationship with Product, adjacent teams, and the AI team. That means turning requirements into technical plans and coordinating shared data, pipelines, and integrations.
Your own technical contributions. That means designing and building key features and taking on the ambiguous problems, so you set the bar through your work and not only through review.
Clear upward communication. That means keeping engineering and product leadership informed of progress, risks, and technical trade-offs.
Who You Are
You genuinely enjoy writing code and don't want to give that up to lead a team — you see technical credibility as the foundation of good management, not a distraction from it.
You care about the people on your pod and invest in their growth, even while carrying your own delivery load.
You can context-switch between deep technical work and people/delivery management without either one suffering.
You make sound prioritization calls under ambiguity, balancing business needs, team capacity, and technical debt.
You're comfortable owning outcomes for a product area end-to-end — from requirements through production operation.
You communicate clearly and proactively, especially across time zones and with distributed stakeholders.
What Makes the Right Candidate Keep Reading
You’ve built backend systems for 6+ years and have led engineers, either as a manager or as the tech lead who owned a team, and you see technical credibility as the foundation of good management. You make sound prioritization calls under ambiguity, balancing business needs, team capacity, and technical debt, and you can switch between deep technical work and people management without either one suffering. You care about hiring and building teams: you’ll recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineers, and you treat that as core to the job. If you’d rather step away from code entirely to manage, or want to code without carrying anyone’s growth, this isn’t the right seat.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience welcome
Skills: Hands-on backend development in Python, Java, or Go; relational and non-relational databases; cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, RESTful APIs, and CI/CD; clear communication across time zones. A plus: healthcare, insurance, fintech, or other high-reliability transactional systems experience, and prior player-coach experience
Experience: 6+ years of software engineering including full-stack or backend work, and 2+ years directly managing or leading engineers (formal management or strong tech-lead ownership of a team) with a record of mentoring and growing people. Experience owning a product area end to end, from scoping and design through production operation, and working on distributed teams
Overjet's Values
Excellence: Aim Higher
Velocity: Quickly Deliver Results
Ownership: Go the Extra Mile
Win-win: Care Deeply
Company Recognition
Included on Best Places to Work by BuiltIn lists in 2026: #3 overall in the US, #1 in NYC, #1 in San Francisco, and #2 in Boston
#4 on FastCompanys's Most Innovative Companies list in Healthcare for 2026
Named one of the TIME Best Inventions of 2024
Recognized in Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplaces in America 2024
Won the Dental Health category at the Digital Health Awards 2024 and 2024 Best Places to Work by Built In
Recognized as one of the Top Startups of 2023 by LinkedIn
Included on the definitive 2022 Forbes AI 50
EEOC
Overjet is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications for this job, we strongly encourage you to apply!
If you are a Colorado resident: Please contact us by emailing recruiting@overjet.ai to receive compensation and benefits information for this role. Please include the job title in the subject line of the email.
