Founding Engineer

About the Role

As a Founding Engineer at SANOVIO, you will play a key role in building the AI-powered procurement infrastructure that tackles one of the biggest and most complex cost problems in European healthcare.

This is a fast-paced, hands-on role for engineers with high agency , strong technical depth, and a founder mindset. We’re looking for a full-stack generalist with a strong frontend affinity . You excel at designing user flows and implementing them in React and TypeScript , while owning outcomes end-to-end across backend, data, AI-enabled workflows, and cloud deployment . You thrive amid uncertainty and incomplete requirements , move quickly, and still care deeply about architecture, clean code, and long-term quality .

If you are a passionate builder who thrives at the intersection of full-stack development and AI, this is your opportunity to work closely with the founders, shape the product, and help us scale toward €10M ARR in 2026 .

Tasks

Owning end-to-end product workflows , from frontend UX to backend systems, data pipelines, and edge cases

Building world-class frontend experiences in React and TypeScript alongside scalable, reliable backend systems

Designing and owning AI-enabled systems , including embeddings, retrieval, and agents that create real operational leverage

Developing and operating data pipelines for large-scale unstructured data

Making pragmatic technical decisions on architecture, tools, and frameworks to balance speed and quality

Deploying, running, and maintaining software in cloud environments with a “you ship it, you run it” mindset

Writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with scalable, reusable components and APIs

Collaborating across the stack and raising the engineering bar through reviews, mentoring, and technical leadership

General Profile

We are looking for stellar engineers with a strong background in full-stack software engineering and AI , and the potential to grow and lead teams in the future. 3–5 years of experience is a plus , but we hire for skill, ownership, and output.

Generalist engineer with a frontend affinity, capable of building across backend, data, and AI

End-to-end product ownership, driving ideas from concept to customer-ready production

Proactive execution in ambiguous environments, turning unclear requirements into shipped software

High-speed delivery paired with a focus on clean code and scalable architecture

Close iteration with users and clients, including collaboration across different cultures

Strong problem-solving ability and fast adoption of new technologies

Motivation to build excellent software in a fast-paced startup environment

Willingness to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than a traditional 9–5 role

Technical skillset

Strong experience with full-stack software engineering, especially React and TypeScript, with excellent understanding of constructing user flows

Solid backend engineering skills, ideally with Node.js, and experience designing APIs and data model

Proven track record of architecting and building production-grade software systems

Cloud and DevOps experience with Docker

AI experience is a plus, especially embeddings and retrieval, structured outputs and tool calling, evals, and agentic workflows beyond prompt engineering

Leadership and communication

You naturally take responsibility and enjoy leading

You’re one of the strongest engineers in the team and make everyone else better

Everyone can come to you for advice on how to fix their hardest problems

You communicate clearly and are credible with technical stakeholders and clients

Bonus if you

Can share a portfolio of projects, shipped products, or a GitHub with meaningful work

Have experience scaling systems from early usage to larger production workloads

Have built workflow-heavy B2B products, internal tools, or operations software

You are business proficient in Chinese

Benefits

Great central office in Munich with regular team events and dinners

Monthly Wellness budget

Access to any AI or productivity tools you need to do your best work

International scope & travel

Flexible work setup with time-zone responsibility

Meaningful compensation package including cash, performance bonus, and shares (Actual offers and compensation are based on specific job duties, experience, performance, total rewards structure, and other considerations).

About the interview process

Step 1: Intro call

Casual intro meeting with one of the founders to get to know each other and introduce SANOVIO.

Step 2: Technical interview

The technical interview consists of two parts:

A take-home exercise, including a short presentation

A system design interview

For the take-home exercise, we’d provide you with a task. You’ll have 2–3 hours to complete it, focusing on a real SANOVIO workflow and user flow in React and TypeScript, with a light end-to-end angle such as API integration, data modeling, edge cases, and clean architecture. Later, you’ll present your results to us.

Step 3: Personal Fit

Meet another co-founder to get a feel for our culture and working style.

Step 4: Offer & Reference Checks

If we see a great fit, you will get an offer, including a competitive compensation package. At the same time, we’ll ask you to provide 2–3 references so we can gather additional insights into your strengths and working style.

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