Job description
Founding Engineer
Company Overview
SANOVIO is the agentic procurement platform for hospitals, from data to delivery. We turn scattered procurement data, fragmented suppliers, and overworked teams into one connected, intelligent operation.
Job Summary
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 / Qualifications
- 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.
- Strong problem-solving ability and fast adoption of new technologies.
- Strong experience with full-stack software engineering, especially React and TypeScript.
- Solid backend engineering skills, ideally with Node.js.
- Cloud and DevOps experience with Docker.
- Willingness to work in-person in Munich.
Preferred Qualifications
- AI experience, especially embeddings and retrieval, structured outputs and tool calling, evals, and agentic workflows.
- Portfolio of projects, shipped products, or a GitHub with meaningful work.
- Experience building workflow-heavy B2B products, internal tools, or operations software.
- Experience scaling systems from early usage to larger production workloads.
- Business proficiency in Chinese.
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Remote: False
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Great central office in Munich with regular team events and dinners.
- Monthly Wellness budget.
- Access to any AI or productivity tools you need.
- International scope & travel.
- Flexible work setup with time-zone responsibility.
- Meaningful compensation package including cash, performance bonus, and shares.
Application Process
The interview process includes: 1. Intro call, 2. Technical interview (take-home exercise and system design), 3. Personal Fit, 4. Offer & Reference Checks.
