Founding Engineer

SANOVIO GmbH; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Munich office

Wellness budget

AI tools access

International travel

Flexible work setup

Compensation package

Zusammenfassung

SANOVIO GmbH in Munich is seeking a founding engineer to help build our AI-powered procurement infrastructure. This fast-paced role blends frontend focus with backend, data, and cloud work, and requires ownership of architecture and long‑term quality.

You will own end-to-end product workflows, develop React/TypeScript interfaces, design AI-enabled systems with embeddings and retrieval, and operate data pipelines at scale in a startup environment.

Qualifikationen

• Strong experience with full-stack software engineering, especially React and TypeScript, and constructing user flows.
• Backend engineering skills, ideally Node.js, API design, and data modeling.
• Production-grade software architecture and scalable systems experience.
• Cloud/DevOps exposure with Docker and related tooling.
• AI experience a plus: embeddings, retrieval, and AI-enabled workflows.

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end product workflows from frontend UX to backend systems, data pipelines, and edge cases.
• Build world-class frontend experiences in React and TypeScript alongside scalable backends.
• Design and own AI-enabled systems, including embeddings, retrieval, and agents for operational leverage.
• Develop and operate data pipelines for large-scale unstructured data.
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing speed and quality.
• Deploy, run, and maintain software in cloud environments with a you ship it, you run it mindset.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with scalable, reusable APIs.
• Collaborate across the stack and raise the engineering bar through reviews and mentoring.

Kenntnisse

React

TypeScript

Full-stack

Frontend affinity

Node.js

APIs

Data modeling

Cloud

Docker

AI experience

Jobbeschreibung

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.