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title: 'Senior Software Engineer (Platform) at DayDream'
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# Senior Software Engineer (Platform) at DayDream

- **Company:** DayDream
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/daydream/e1d359c5-c399-4342-97a9-889bdba0310a

## Job description

DayDream helps dentists get paid for the work they do. In this $165B market, our product simplifies the complex process of verifying insurance coverage, submitting claims, appealing denials, billing patients, and maintaining clean books. As a result of how complex this process is and how many things get lost in the process, dentists can lose 10-20% of their revenue! What this leads to is the things patients hate about the American healthcare system: it’s inefficient, unaffordable, and just too d*mn confusing. We work with a lot of dentists and they don’t love it either. Dentists want to treat you, help you, and see you smile. We believe that by automating parts of revenue cycle management, we increase financial transparency for everyone involved - patients, providers, and help support small business owner dentists across America.

## The Role

We are looking for a frontend focused engineer.

## The Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who’s obsessed with building fast, reliable, and secure systems—and giving product engineers the tools they need to ship with confidence. You’ll be the backbone of our infra, observability, and deployment pipeline, owning everything from monitoring and alerting to networking, security, and CI/CD.

## Responsibilities

- Own observability (Datadog) and ensure our systems are monitored, alerting, and self-healing
- Build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS + Terraform)
- Help achieve HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance
- Own CI/CD pipelines to help us ship safely and frequently
- Create complex dev/staging environments
- Set up and manage data infra to support product and analytics use cases

Signs You’re a Good Fit

- You've been the first infra hire or platform lead at a startup
- You’ve built tools that made other engineers 10x more productive
- You’ve got strong opinions on infrastructure, but you’re pragmatic about tradeoffs

## Team

- Anton Lin, Co-Founder, CTO:
- Formerly co-founded Scout, scaled to $1M ARR before an exit to StockX
- Built and grew several SaaS businesses to 7 figures in revenue
- UC Berkeley dropout (3 weeks!)
- Shreyas Parab, Co-Founder, CEO:
- Formerly first employee at YC W23 startup, Special projects for billionaire Dan Gilbert
- Started and grew D2C brand to $75k in annual sales, started/sold ed-tech company, Senior Class President at Stanford, student representative on the Board of Trustees
- Stanford Biomedical Computation
- Our (currently) <5 people engineering team includes former founders, early engineers from Ramp, NSA recruits, Michelin star chefs.

## About DayDream

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: DayDream provides an AI-powered dental billing and revenue cycle management (RCM) platform combined with US-based expert support to help dental practices maximize collections and reduce administrative burden.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Shreyas Parab (Co-Founder), Anton Lin (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare Technology (Dental Billing & Revenue Cycle Management), Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – Dental practices and clinics of all sizes across the United States
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help every dentist in America get paid fairly for the care they provide, by combining the best of human skill and smart automation. [handbook.daydream.dental](https://handbook.daydream.dental/docs/get-started/welcome)

## Products & Services
- **DayDream RCM Platform**: An end-to-end dental billing service that connects directly to practice management systems (like Open Dental) to automate insurance verification, claims submission & follow-up, payment posting, and patient billing. It combines AI automation with a US-based expert account manager (8+ years of in-office experience) for each practice. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Insurance A/R Suite**: A dedicated module to reduce insurance aging (targeting 90+ day aging to $0) with detailed tracking and audit logs. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Detailed Analytics Dashboard**: Measures each step of the billing process to identify problems before they become significant, providing full transparency. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Patient Billing**: Customized communication flows (text, email, snail mail) with payment links and QR codes to help patients pay balances conveniently. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$2.5M** (Pre-Seed round on 2024-04-01) [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/daydreamdental/__GRFyXRxef5-CUMAsq8T79SStRWTlJAfusUBKmhFCOQY)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor in Pre-Seed round was **AI Grant** [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/daydreamdental/__GRFyXRxef5-CUMAsq8T79SStRWTlJAfusUBKmhFCOQY)
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - **Headcount growth**: 180% YoY (from ~1 employee to 19 employees) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daydream-dental)
    - **Monthly traffic growth**: 59% (43,261 monthly visits) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daydream-dental)
    - **LinkedIn follower growth**: 444% yearly (544 followers) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daydream-dental)
    - Active competitor in the dental RCM space with 14 identified competitors. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/daydreamdental/__GRFyXRxef5-CUMAsq8T79SStRWTlJAfusUBKmhFCOQY)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human + AI Hybrid Model**: Unlike pure software or fully outsourced services, DayDream combines intelligent automation with US-based billing experts who have 8+ years of in-office dental experience. This addresses the failure points of both technology-only and human-only approaches. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Founders with Domain Expertise**: The founders grew up in dental practices and intimately understand the frustrations of chasing claims, managing portals, and balancing patient accounts. [handbook.daydream.dental](https://handbook.daydream.dental/docs/get-started/welcome)
- **Full Transparency**: Provides a dashboard and detailed audit logs so practices stay in control and can measure results (faster collections, cleaner claims, fewer write-offs). [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Rapid Claim Follow-up**: Claims are worked every 7 days until paid, with denials appealed, ensuring no revenue is left on the table. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the customer base**: With $2.5M in funding and a rapidly growing team, DayDream is focused on acquiring more dental practices as customers.
- **Deepen automation**: Continue to build out the AI and automation layer to make billing more efficient while keeping expert human oversight.
- **Empower dental billers**: The company's philosophy is to empower, not replace, dental billers, suggesting a focus on building tools that augment human workers. [handbook.daydream.dental](https://handbook.daydream.dental/docs/get-started/welcome)
- **Integrations**: Deepening integration with practice management systems like Open Dental to streamline workflows. [handbook.daydream.dental](https://handbook.daydream.dental/docs/get-started/welcome)

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth startup**: 180% headcount growth in a year offers significant career growth and impact opportunities for early employees.
- **Mission-driven culture**: The company values "Curiosity, Velocity, Communication, Quality, Responsibility, and Ownership." [daydream.dental/careers/billers](https://www.daydream.dental/careers/billers)
- **Remote-first flexibility**: DayDream offers flexible hours and a work-from-home environment for its billing roles, with a supportive team culture and mentorship. [daydream.dental/careers/billers](https://www.daydream.dental/careers/billers)
- **Meaningful work**: Employees help dentists get paid fairly for care, directly impacting patient access and practice sustainability. The company aims to reduce staff burnout and turnover by handling complex billing tasks. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
- **Training and development**: The company provides training and career development opportunities for its team members. [daydream.dental/careers/billers](https://www.daydream.dental/careers/billers)
- **Office location**: Headquarters in San Francisco, CA (hybrid potential) with a remote-friendly culture. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daydream-dental)

## Sources
1. [daydream.dental](https://www.daydream.dental/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daydream-dental)
3. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/daydreamdental/__GRFyXRxef5-CUMAsq8T79SStRWTlJAfusUBKmhFCOQY)
4. [handbook.daydream.dental](https://handbook.daydream.dental/docs/get-started/welcome)
5. [daydream.dental/careers/billers](https://www.daydream.dental/careers/billers)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/daydream](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/daydream)

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