Founding Engineer

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.

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Posted Nov 01, 2026

Posted Nov 01, 2026