Job Description

Zentist is a seed-stage SaaS company bringing the on-demand economy to the $134B dental industry. We make it simple for patients to find and book a full range of procedures with dentists that are the best fit for them, and manage the entire process on behalf of the practice. Our team is based in San Francisco, backed by top investors including Point Nine Capital, Kima Ventures, and 500 Startups.

Why you should work with us:

• YOUR WORK WILL AFFECT PATIENTS’ LIVES DIRECTLY. At Zentist, we’re patient-first. In everything we do, we are aggressively focused on lowering costs and improving the experience for our patients.

• YOU’LL HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT WHAT YOU’RE BUILDING IS USEFUL. Our team has 20+ years of dental practice management and a deep network in the space, meaning you’ll have a direct connection to practitioners to inform product decisions.

• YOUR WORK WILL SHAPE OUR PRODUCT FOR YEARS TO COME. We’re at a foundational point in the company where we have revenue from a base of initial customers who love us and we’re building for the long-term. Your contributions to decisions and code will help form the foundation of the product and the company as a whole.

THE COMPANY: 

Zentist is a dental marketplace platform. For our patients, we provide a streamlined diagnostics and treatment UX to help find and finance high-quality dental care. On the side of our dental partners, we provide a full suite of patient management services and a stream of valuable patient referrals. Our mission is to provide unparalleled access to excellent yet affordable dental care.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop user experiences for both sides of the Zentist marketplace: our patients and our practice management users
• Contribute to a wide range of development issues - including front-end, back-end, and DevOps - based on dynamic company priorities
• Refine existing products via thoughtful experiments within our company-wide framework of analytics, testing, and iteration
• Own the development of rapid prototypes for new business development ideas
• Synthesize product requirements and testing to ensure that user experience you create is well-aligned with customer needs and the company’s vision
• Work collaboratively with our engineering team to design and ship features in a weekly sprint format, implement new technologies, and determine technical tradeoffs
• Work with the product and business teams to create development estimates, prototypes, analytics reports, QA, and debugging
• For context, some of our past projects include: uploading and verifying patient information, scheduling patient visits for a variety of services, procedure price quoting, processing insurance, collecting payment, and more

WE ARE LOOKING FOR TEAMMATES WHO BRING:

• Demonstrable excellent quality output. We look for functionality, maintainability, performance, and great documentation. Including your Github, SO, software blogs, etc. to this end would add to your application
• At least 6-12 months of intensive work with an engineering team that continuously delivered a first-rate product to end users
• Strong communication skills in a team environment
• Experience with Python and Javascript
• Proficiency in up-to-date engineering tools, including Git, your IDE of choice, AWS / Azure, etc.
• Comfort learning new languages, libraries, and frameworks when the solution calls for it
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

• An understanding of HIPAA compliance and the related set of required security practices
• Worked in a team with similar workflow practices
• Architected a scaled front-end web application with React.js 
• Engineering experience in an early-stage startup with users and revenue
• Data modeling expertise, especially in workflow management
• Experience with complex data queries and algorithms
• Previously built and maintained rapid test environments

OUR TECH STACK INCLUDES: Javascript, Python, HTML, CSS, React / Redux, SQLAlchemy, GraphQL / Graphene, AWS / Redshift, Segment, Mixpanel, Autopilot, Typeform, Unbounce, Figma 

THINGS PEOPLE LOVE ABOUT WORKING FOR ZENTIST: 

• Build your network with the amazing people in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem and in health-tech
• Location: a few minute walk from the Powell BART & Muni station in San Francisco, right next to Yerba Buena Gardens, Westfield Shopping Centre, Moscone Conference Center, and great places for lunch
• Food: a variety of free snacks while at the office
• Excellent health and dental insurance
• Flexible PTO policy
• Competitive salary and options in a small, rapidly scaling company

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY?

• Impactful work that will improve the lives of patients
• Great opportunities to learn from team members and the work
• Meaningful equity in a company tackling a massive market