A far better product than any other, for an existing market, which customers love, growing month-on-month and rapidly expanding, with a huge barrier to entry.
A perfect team for the job: a CMO who teaches clear aligners at UCSF and is the best in CA at the job, a CEO from DaVita and OneMedical with a career in Healthcare, engineers from Docker and previous medical automation jobs, PHD data scientists.
It's incredibly fun and challenging to work on.

Our systems map to real world patients with health data, so we need to gracefully handle edge cases and ensure things are built well.

Engineering at Uniform Teeth

Engineering team and processes

We're early stage so we're small and have two main teams: core and specialist. The core team builds our EMR, API, and apps (including scheduling, billing etc.).

The specialist team builds our C++ QT app and algorithms for treatment planning.

We work hand in hand with product and write specs, plan our work, do estimations and assign owners to features end to end (though you work with others even if you're the owner).

Technical Challenges

Building a healthcare system is hard; dealing with so many people means dealing with many edge cases. It's fun to work on, and it's fun to plan how to make our systems robust enough to handle every patient.

Projects you might work on

Build a scheduling system to handle all common appointment types, including:
- Predicting which appointment type a patient needs based off of their prescription
- Specifying slots that are available in each room, and for which appointment types
- Handling all time related issues (double booking, timezones, DST etc).
- The UI to allow clinic managers to specify availability
Build a UDID/device tracking system for every aligner we manufacture for FDA approval. The system must:
- Generate a unique incrementing ID for each individual tray we build
- Handle reprints of trays
- Ensure the ID can be laser printed onto trays
And plan for the future in which we fully automate the sending and printing of aligners
Rebuild the UI for showing a patient in the EMR, showing:
1. Their timeline of treatment
2. All relevant appointments and form submissions (prescriptions, treatment plans etc.)
3. The patient's chief concerns
The requirements are gathered from product and translated via UX and Engineering to come up with a comprehensive plan before we begin work.