Technical Lead (Python)

Dentulu Inc
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Job Description: Tech Lead (Python), MaduraiCompany: Dentulu Inc.

Location: Madurai, Tamil Nadu (on-site, Madurai Innovation, Technology & Operations Center)

Type: Full-time

Experience: 7+ years, with at least 2 years leading engineers

About Dentulu

Dentulu is a US-based teledentistry and dental technology platform serving 700+ providers across all 50 US states. We build products for patients, dental practices, DSOs and physicians: telehealth, practice tools, AI assistants, voice transcription, sleep apnea care, and more. Our engineering is run from Madurai, and we ship production software used by US healthcare providers every day.

The role

We’re hiring Tech Leads to own the design and delivery of new products and services end to end. You’ll lead a small team, make architecture decisions, review code, and stay hands-on. Most new work is in Python. Our core legacy platform is PHP, so knowing PHP is a strong plus because many new services integrate with it.

What you’ll do

  • Lead a team of engineers: plan work, break down features, review code, unblock people
  • Design and build services in FastAPI with PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis, and React front ends
  • Own a product from design to production: sign-up, auth, dashboards, APIs, deployments
  • Integrate new services with our legacy PHP (CodeIgniter/MySQL) platform
  • Build AI-powered features using LLMs: assistants, summarization, transcription pipelines
  • Set engineering standards: validation on client and server, structured logging everywhere, git-based deployments, no hotfixing on production
  • Work with US-based leadership on scope, timelines and trade-offs
  • Mentor developers and raise the bar on code qualityMust have
  • 7+ years of backend development, with strong Python (FastAPI)
  • Solid SQL and data modelling experience (PostgreSQL and/or MySQL)
  • Experience building and consuming REST APIs, background jobs and queues
  • Experience leading or mentoring a team and owning delivery
  • Comfortable with Linux, Nginx, Docker and AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)
  • Clear written and spoken English for working with a US teamStrong plus
  • PHP, especially CodeIgniter or Laravel, and experience modernizing legacy codebases
  • React (Vite) front-end experience
  • Working with LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock), RAG, or speech-to-text
  • Healthcare software experience and awareness of HIPAA, data privacy and security
  • Integrations such as Twilio, SendGrid, payment gateways, or third-party health APIsWhy join
  • Lead real products used by US healthcare providers, not maintenance tickets
  • Direct work with the founders on architecture and product direction
  • Modern stack with heavy use of AI tooling in day-to-day engineering
  • Build a career in Madurai without moving to Bangalore or ChennaiHow to apply
  • Apply here or send your resume to hr@dentulu.com with “Tech Lead (Python) – Madurai” in the subject. Include a link to something you’ve built or led.

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