About the Company
Our client is a healthcare AI startup on a mission to make healthcare truly accessible through advanced AI systems. The vision is ambitious: building intelligent agents capable of performing doctor-level and nurse-level tasks while improving patient access, clinical efficiency, and healthcare outcomes at scale.
The team is seeking exceptional engineers who are driven by solving meaningful, high-impact problems and who thrive in fast-moving, founder-led environments where ownership is expected from day one.
Location: Remote (European Union)
Work Model: Full-Time | Remote
Compensation: €100,000 – €200,000 + Equity
The Opportunity
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help architect and build the core systems powering next-generation healthcare AI products. You will work directly on AI-driven patient communication, triage systems, agent orchestration platforms, secure healthcare infrastructure, and low-latency voice and video technologies.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building production-grade systems that operate reliably at scale.
What You'll Do
* Design and scale AI-powered healthcare platforms and distributed systems
* Build and optimize agent-based architectures and orchestration systems
* Develop secure healthcare data infrastructure and enterprise integrations
* Work on systems leveraging LLMs, AI agents, reinforcement learning, and modern AI technologies
* Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and clinical accuracy
* Collaborate closely with founders and a highly technical engineering team
* Take ownership of technical decisions from architecture through deployment
Requirements
* 5+ years of experience building complex production-grade software systems
* Strong backend engineering expertise, ideally with Python
* Experience designing scalable distributed systems
* Ability to transform ambiguous business requirements into robust technical solutions
* Strong software architecture and systems design skills
* Experience operating in startup, scale-up, or high-growth environments
* Comfortable working independently with high ownership and accountability
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with AI, machine learning, LLMs, or agentic systems
* Healthcare technology, health data, or clinical workflow experience
* Experience with cloud infrastructure and large-scale systems
* Proficiency in additional languages such as Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar
* Open-source contributions, hackathons, or side projects demonstrating technical excellence
* Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical strategy
What We Offer
* €100,000 – €200,000 annual compensation
* Equity participation
* Fully remote work across the European Union
* Flexible employment options (Permanent or B2B)
* Direct collaboration with founders
* Opportunity to help build category-defining healthcare AI technology
* High-impact work with real-world societal outcomes
If you're excited about shaping the future of AI-driven healthcare and building systems capable of transforming patient care, we'd love to hear from you...