Staff Software Engineer

About Our Client Our client is a stealth healthcare AI startup building the future of healthcare delivery through intelligent agent systems. Their vision is to create AI agents capable of performing doctor-level and nurse-level tasks, helping make healthcare more accessible, scalable, and efficient worldwide. This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly ambitious team working on some of the most impactful challenges in AI and healthcare.

• Location: European Union (Remote)
• Work Model: Full-Time | Remote
• Compensation: €100,000 – €200,000 + Equity
• Work Authorization: Valid Work-Permit for EU

The Opportunity As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and scaling the core systems powering next-generation healthcare AI products. You will work on AI-driven patient communication, intelligent triage, agent orchestration, secure healthcare data infrastructure, and low-latency voice and video systems. Beyond hands-on engineering, you will influence architecture decisions, improve system reliability, and support the growth of other engineers through technical leadership and mentorship. What You'll Do

• Architect and scale distributed systems supporting healthcare AI applications
• Design and improve agent orchestration platforms and AI-driven workflows
• Build secure healthcare data layers and enterprise-grade integrations
• Develop systems leveraging LLMs, reinforcement learning, and agent-based architectures
• Drive architecture decisions and technical strategy
• Improve scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate closely with founders and a small, high-performing engineering team

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building complex production-grade software systems
• Strong expertise in Python and backend system design
• Proven experience designing scalable distributed architectures
• Experience owning technical decisions and system reliability at scale
• Ability to transform ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Strong software engineering and systems-thinking capabilities
• Experience working within startup, scale-up, or high-growth environments
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI, machine learning, LLMs, or agentic systems
• Healthcare technology, clinical systems, or health data experience
• Experience with Go, Rust, TypeScript, React, AWS, or cloud-native architectures
• Open-source contributions, hackathons, or notable technical side projects
• Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineering teams
• Experience building products in highly regulated or mission-critical environments

What We Offer

• €100,000 – €200,000 annual compensation
• Equity participation
• Fully remote work across the European Union
• Flexible employment structure (Permanent or B2B)
• Direct access to founders and strategic decision-making
• High-impact work with real-world healthcare outcomes
• Opportunity to help build category-defining AI technology

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered healthcare while working on technically challenging systems at scale, we'd love to hear from you...