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San Mateo, California, United States
Hybrid
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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!
As Overjet grows, the systems we’ve built have to carry far more customers, data, and products than they were designed for. Without engineers who set direction and raise the bar, that growth shows up as slower delivery, brittle systems, and incidents that reach clinicians and insurers. A Staff Engineer is the person who prevents that: someone who makes the hard architectural calls, builds the tooling and structure that compound across the team, and makes every engineer around them better. You’ll work with engineering leadership, Product, and our ML team on the San Mateo team to shape how Overjet’s platform evolves.
Nobody hands you a roadmap or an architecture diagram. You’ll take on the ambiguous, high-stakes problems, decide how to solve them, and own the outcome in production, including being on call. If setting technical direction for software that healthcare depends on, while still writing the code, sounds like a fun problem, keep reading.
What You’ll Own
The architecture of the systems in your area. That means driving technical decisions that serve engineers a year from now, not just this quarter, and writing them down so others can build on them.
Reliability and correctness of production software used daily by clinicians and insurers. That means designing for failure, owning monitoring and rollout safety, and leading the response when something breaks.
A culture of safe, low-touch shipping. That means feature flags, integration tests, and automated validations that let the team move quickly without fear.
The reduction of engineering toil. That means building tooling, automation, and structure that save the team time every week.
The technical bar across the team. That means design reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and raising standards through your own work as much as through feedback.
Alignment with Product, ML, and engineering leadership on what to build and how. That means influencing direction without relying on authority.
What Makes the Right Candidate Keep Reading
You’ve spent a decade building and running production systems, and you came out of it with strong instincts for what fails at scale and what to do before it does. You make architectural decisions that hold up over time, you stay close to the code, and you treat reliability and rollout safety as part of the engineering. The traits that matter most here are high agency and conviction: you act without waiting to be assigned, and you’ll argue for the right design with evidence. If you want a role where someone else owns the technical direction and your job is to execute, this isn’t the right seat.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience welcome
Skills: Strong backend development in Python (or a comparable language) with a focus on clean architecture; deep experience with SQL, databases, and data modeling; concurrency and event-driven design; Docker and Kubernetes; cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform; judicious use of AI tools in development. A plus: healthcare or regulated-data experience (for example HIPAA or EHR)
Experience: 10+ years of software engineering designing, building, and operating production systems, including a record of technical leadership and mentoring
Why Overjet?
Competitive Compensation and Equity
Hybrid workplace that provides flexibility, vibrant in-person workspaces, and the ability to build strong connections across all of Overjet - regardless of location
401k plans with a matching program
Medical, Dental and Vision coverage: 99% employee premium covered, 75% dependent premium covered
Life and AD+D Insurance
8 weeks Paid Parental Leave
Optional HSA with Employer contribution
Flexible Time Off and company paid holidays
Our Hybrid Workplace
We have a unique hybrid workplace at Overjet — which combines the teamwork of meeting in person, with the flexibility of working from anywhere.
Many of our positions are based in San Mateo, New York City, Boston, and Salt Lake City. The Jetters who live in these “geo-hubs” come to the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, while having the option to work from home the rest of the week.
Our People Team is happy to answer any questions about what hybrid work means for your specific role!
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.