--- title: 'Technical Leader – Engineering/ Kolkata at Practice By Numbers' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-leader-engineering-kolkata-practice-by-numbers-kolkata-xkqwcaj3fzmd' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Technical Leader – Engineering/ Kolkata at Practice By Numbers - **Company:** Practice By Numbers - **Location:** Kolkata, India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-28 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/practice-by-numbers/am9icG9zdDopPsTR3J5m7zA57RmohW62 ## Job description Technical Leader – Engineering/ Kolkata Experience: 10–15 Years Location: Kolkata, India About Practice by Numbers: Practice by Numbers (PbN) is a fast-growing SaaS platform helping healthcare organizations leverage data, automation, patient engagement, and operational intelligence to improve business performance and patient outcomes. We build highly scalable cloud-native products serving thousands of customers across North America. We are looking for an exceptional Technical Leader who can drive architecture, technical excellence, and platform scalability while remaining deeply involved in solving complex engineering challenges. Role Overview: As a Technical Leader, you will be responsible for driving the technical direction of critical products and platform services. You will lead architectural decisions, influence engineering standards, solve complex technical problems, and guide teams in building scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems. This is a highly technical role requiring strong expertise in distributed systems, cloud architecture, software design, performance optimization, and modern engineering practices. The ideal candidate is passionate about building great software, enjoys working on challenging technical problems, and leads through technical depth and execution excellence. Key Responsibilities: Architecture & System Design: ● Design and evolve highly scalable, resilient, and secure SaaS platforms. ● Define architecture standards, design principles, and engineering best practices. ● Lead technical design reviews and architecture discussions across teams. ● Drive modernization initiatives and platform evolution. ● Design distributed systems capable of handling large-scale workloads and future growth. ● Ensure systems are built for performance, observability, reliability, and maintainability. Technical Leadership: ● Act as the technical authority for key business-critical systems and services. ● Drive engineering excellence through high standards for design, code quality, testing, and operational readiness. ● Review complex designs and critical code paths. ● Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and technical leads. ● Identify technical risks early and develop pragmatic solutions. ● Influence technology decisions across multiple teams and products. Software Engineering: ● Contribute hands-on to architecture, design, and implementation of critical platform components. ● Build scalable APIs, backend services, and cloud-native applications. ● Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and security. ● Drive adoption of reusable frameworks, shared services, and engineering accelerators. ● Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues. Cloud & Platform Engineering: ● Architect and optimize solutions on AWS. ● Drive containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure automation initiatives. ● Implement scalable deployment strategies and resilient cloud architectures. ● Improve observability through monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing. ● Partner with DevOps teams to continuously improve deployment reliability and platform stability. AI-Enabled Engineering: ● Leverage modern AI capabilities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, and development efficiency. ● Drive adoption of AI-assisted development practices across teams. ● Evaluate emerging technologies and identify practical opportunities to accelerate engineering outcomes. ● Promote effective use of AI while maintaining strong engineering standards, security, and code quality. Required Qualifications: ● Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related discipline. ● 10–15 years of software engineering experience building enterprise-grade applications. ● Proven experience architecting and delivering large-scale SaaS products. ● Strong experience working in high-growth product engineering environments. ● Deep expertise in software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native development. ● Track record of solving complex scalability, performance, and reliability challenges. Technical Expertise: Backend Technologies: ● Python ● Django / Django REST Framework ● Node.js ## ● REST APIs ● Microservices Architecture ● Event-Driven Systems ● Asynchronous Processing Frontend Technologies: ● React.js ● TypeScript ● Modern JavaScript ● Frontend Architecture Patterns ● State Management Frameworks Data & Storage: ● PostgreSQL ● Redis ● Elasticsearch / OpenSearch ● Database Design ● Query Optimization ● Caching Strategies ● Data Modeling Cloud & Infrastructure: ● AWS ## ● ECS / EKS ● Lambda ● API Gateway ● S3 ● RDS ● CloudWatch ● IAM ● Networking Fundamentals DevOps & Reliability: ● Docker ● Kubernetes ● CI/CD Pipelines ● Infrastructure as Code ● Monitoring & Observability ● Distributed Tracing ● Performance Engineering ● Incident Management Software Design: ● Object-Oriented Design ● Design Patterns ● SOLID Principles ● Domain-Driven Design ● System Design ● Secure Coding Practices ● Test Automation Preferred Qualifications: ● Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms. ● Experience handling large-scale transactional and analytical workloads. ● Exposure to healthcare technology or data-intensive applications. ● Experience driving platform architecture across multiple engineering teams. ● Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and performance engineering. ● Passion for emerging technologies and continuous learning. What We Look For: ● Strong hands-on technical depth. ● Exceptional system design and architectural thinking. ● Ability to solve ambiguous and complex technical problems. ● Bias toward execution and ownership. ● Strong engineering judgment and decision-making capability. ● Ability to influence through technical expertise rather than hierarchy. ● Passion for building high-quality software and scalable platforms. ## About Practice By Numbers ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Practice by Numbers is an all-in-one software platform that streamlines dental practice operations, from analytics and patient communication to payments and scheduling. - **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds – assumed bootstrapped or privately funded) - **Headquarters**: Redmond, Washington, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Dr. Aditi Agarwal, Rohit Garg, Chris Lau ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Dental Practice Management Software (HealthTech) - **Target customers**: Dental practices, groups, and organizations (B2B, primarily SMB and mid-market) - **Mission statement**: “Transform dental practice management through integrated software solutions that streamline operations, enhance patient experiences, and optimize business performance.” ## Products & Services - **Practice Relationship Management (PRM) Platform**: A unified suite combining analytics, patient communication, reputation management, online scheduling, online payments, patient forms, insurance verification, and more – all in one system. - **Analytics & Business Intelligence**: Dashboards and reports that give dental teams insights into practice performance, patient trends, and revenue optimization. - **VoIP / SIP Backbone**: Integrated phone system for dental practices. - **AI-Powered Tools**: AI at the core of modern dentistry to simplify operations (e.g., automation, patient engagement). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Over 5,000 dental professionals trust the platform (2024); 400% growth since the 2022 relaunch. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed – key partnerships likely include dental industry networks; talent sources include Henry Schein One, Lighthouse 360, etc. - **Growth Signals**: 70 employees (+9% YoY); active job postings for senior roles (VP Sales, SRE, Product Manager); expanding presence in India and US. ## Competitive Advantages - **All-in-one integration**: Combines analytics, CRM, payments, scheduling, and phone into a single platform, reducing the need for multiple vendors. - **Dental-specific focus**: Deep domain expertise from founders (clinical + business + tech) creates a product tailored to dental workflows. - **AI-first approach**: Infusing AI into core operations to automate and optimize practice management. ## Strategic Focus - **AI & Automation**: Putting AI at the center of product development to simplify dental practice operations. - **Platform expansion**: Continuously adding modules (online booking, patient intake, payments) to become the single operating system for dental practices. - **Scaling team**: Hiring across engineering, product, sales, and customer success to support 400% growth trajectory. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “work hard, play hard” – high energy, collaborative, with genuine friendships and celebrations. Mission-driven environment focused on improving dental care. - **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote flexibility – Bellevue, WA office; employees work remotely with hybrid options (headquarters in Redmond, also office in Evansville, IN). Remote-friendly. - **Perks**: Competitive salary, flexible schedule, professional development (training, mentorship), health coverage, wellness perks. - **Engineering culture**: Building on a modern tech stack (VoIP/SIP, AI, full-stack payments); opportunities to work on complex system challenges in a growing startup. ## Sources 1. [practicenumbers.com/company/job-listings](https://practicenumbers.com/company/job-listings/) 2. [practicenumbers.com/company/careers](https://practicenumbers.com/company/careers/) 3. [practicenumbers.com/company/about-us](https://practicenumbers.com/company/about-us/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/practice-by-numbers](https://linkedin.com/company/practice-by-numbers) 5. 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