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

Requirements

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.

General Profile

• 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