Senior Software Engineer

Pearl is shaping the future of dentistry through AI solutions for dental imaging and care. The Senior Software Engineer will build and improve AI-centered systems, including real-time transcription and documentation workflows, agentic systems, and dental data intelligence pipelines, while collaborating on system design and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain real-time transcription and LLM-powered summarization pipelines
• Contribute to agentic systems (tool-calling workflows, integrations, and safety guardrails)
• Develop across the stack: Node.js/TypeScript APIs, React frontends, PostgreSQL, and AWS
• Support event-driven architectures using Kafka, SQS, or similar technologies
• Write reliable, testable code with a focus on maintainability and observability
• Collaborate on prompt engineering and evaluation of AI outputs
• Help monitor, debug, and improve system performance and reliability
• Work with AI development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Claude) to enhance productivity
• Partner with senior engineers on system design and technical decisions

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Strong sense of ownership over your work and ability to deliver independently
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and contribute to problem-solving
• Experience building backend services with Node.js / TypeScript
• Experience with React and modern frontend development
• Familiarity with AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3 preferred)
• Experience with PostgreSQL and data modeling fundamentals
• Exposure to event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, etc.)
• Familiarity with LLM-based systems (prompting, structured outputs, or tool usage)
• Experience writing tests and working with production systems
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools in your workflow
• Experience in healthcare or dental technology
• Exposure to agent frameworks or LLM orchestration patterns
• Experience with ETL pipelines or data integration
• Multi-tenant SaaS experience
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Serverless Framework)