Staff Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

Overjet, a leader in dental AI, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in its Lahore hub. The role works across Engineering, Product and the AI team to set the technical standard for reliable software, with colleagues in other time zones. It involves owning ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems, making design decisions and owning production incidents, including on-call duty.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deliver backend systems, from architecture and clean code to production
• Build proactive monitoring with logs, dashboards and alerts so issues are caught early
• Create feature flags, integration tests and automated validations for safe, low-touch rollouts
• Standardize processes and automate routine operations, including MCP agents running from internal runbooks
• Run thoughtful code and design reviews and mentor engineers
• Take part in scheduled and ad hoc on-call rotations and learn from incidents

Required profile

• 10+ years of software engineering, including designing, building and operating production backend systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred; equivalent experience welcome
• Deep knowledge of databases, concurrency and event-driven design, with monitoring and rollout safety built in
• High agency and intensity: takes ownership of problems and holds a high standard even when no one is watching

Required skills

• Strong Python with a focus on clean architecture
• Concurrency and event-driven architecture
• Extensive SQL and PostgreSQL, data modeling and database design
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS or Azure) with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
• A plus: C# and Windows systems, MCP and process automation, and knowledge of data security and compliance standards such as HIPAA