Lead Software Engineer

Nashville, TN

At Tend, we’re combining top-notch care with incredible environments, elevated hospitality, consumer-grade technology, and curated products to redefine going to the dentist as a whole-you wellness experience.

We are reframing dental expectations… and that’s all part of the fun!

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with stakeholders & management to define software requirements and implement solutions– using cutting edge tech to solve interesting, large-scale problems. Creating at a rapid pace you’ll make a direct and lasting impact anywhere that technology powers our business.

Responsibilities:

Build and launch successful and enriching products to positively influence the patient journey & experience through our platforms
Manage, facilitate, delegate to and unblock engineering team members
Deliver on the product-driven goals for both internal and external teams, ensuring our core engineering values remain a priority
Advocate for the inclusion of modern technologies and trends when it makes sense
Work collaboratively across the SDLC within an agile environment
Provide technical guidance and help mentor engineering, QA, operations, and product staff
Help define, document, evolve and evangelize high engineering standards and best practices across multiple areas
Move quickly and intelligently - seeing technical debt as your nemesis

Qualifications and Experience:

If you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below, but are still interested in the job, please apply!
Fullstack, backend, or frontend engineer with extensive experience working on high-traffic systems
Background working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems
Experience working with one or more of the following: React.js, Next.js, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS lambda, Serverless Framework
Cloud-based environments like AWS and GCP
Advanced experience working with APIs / in an API-driven environment
Use of automation and CI/CD concepts to rapidly deliver, measure, and iterate on products and features
Experience with testing systems and concepts like test-driven development

It would be nice if you also have this experience:

Within PCI-compliant, HIPAA-compliant environments
Working with health or dental insurance
As an active member of the open-source and the local tech community

More about Tend

Tend provides the best dental care available, with a spectacular clinical team and state-of-the-art dental technology. Tend’s dental professionals are incentivized by patient results and experience. As a dental company, we aren’t corporate. We aren’t private. Tend is a new dental model that’s a joy to work at, with the dental autonomy clinicians expect and the support they need with design, marketing, operations, HR, and benefits. Our clinicians work in beautiful dental studios designed to soothe. And they cultivate inclusive environments that value the individual and praise team effort. Simply put, Tend is a place where dental is transformed into the empowering, human, and joyful experience it should be.

Tend is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Tend is committed to promoting a work environment in which differences are respected, employees are treated fairly, and individual contributions are valued and rewarded. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.