π° $200,000 - $280,000 π Austin, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; New York, New York; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; undefined, California; Remote, Oregon π 06/28/2026
_Weβre building the AI operating system for dentistry_.
**The Platform**
DECA is the AI-native operating system for dentistry. We sit above legacy
Practice Management Systems as an intelligent control plane β unifying data,
orchestrating AI agents, and automating workflows across every layer of a
dental organization. Think Commure, built ground-up for dentistry.
We are not a feature. We are not a bolt-on. We are the platform.
**The Unfair Advantage**
Most pre-seed startups build in a speculative vacuum. We donβt. Our built-in
live pilot is a 7-location dental group in Texas. You ship to production on
day one.
**The Role**
You are Hire #1. Full technical ownership. No legacy codebase. No product
manager handing you specs. You architect the system every future engineer
inherits β working directly with the founder.
**What Youβll Build**
β’ Local Edge Synchronizer β real-time bridge between cloud AI and on-premise
OpenDental
β’ LangGraph AI agent orchestration across scheduling, billing, and clinical
workflows
β’ Temporal Cloud workflow engine for long-running dental operations
β’ Multi-tenant AWS platform with Aurora PostgreSQL and pgvector
β’ HIPAA-compliant data pipelines and audit infrastructure
β’ Next.js provider and admin dashboards
**Who You Are**
β’ 5β8+ years of backend/distributed systems engineering
β’ 2+ years building production LLM/agentic systems
β’ TypeScript/NestJS and PostgreSQL as second nature
β’ Python fluency for AI tooling
β’ Experience with LangGraph, Temporal, or equivalent
β’ Builder mentality β you read the roadmap and ship
**What You Get**
β’ $200Kβ$280K base
β’ 2.0%β4.0% equity (up to 4.0% for co-founder-adjacent profile)
β’ 4-year vest, 1-year cliff
β’ Remote-first, deep work culture
β’ Direct founder access β no committees, no bureaucracy
β’ The chance to define AI-native healthcare infrastructure
_If you want to own the stack that modernizes dentistry, letβs talk._