TL;DR

• Ahead Health is building an AI-powered preventative health platform for Europe
• You're a hands-on full-stack engineer with experience in data-heavy, consumer-facing applications
• Join a team of experienced founders & builders out of Google, Coolblue, Kaia Health, and Oxford
• Full-time. EUR 120–160K + 1-1,5% equity.

Job Profile

At Ahead Health, we're building Europe’s leading preventative healthcare platform. Our mission is to bring the personalized, concierge healthcare of the top-0,1% to the rest of us. With AI, of course. As our Founding Software Engineer, you’ll bring this to live with an experienced, technical, and mission-driven founding team out of Google, Oxford, Kaia Health, and more.

You’ll be instrumental in building a secure, scalable, and exciting product from (almost) the ground up. We’re looking for someone who loves building for impact, thrives in ambiguity, defaults to quick iterations, and cares about all the little big details that make a user experience remarkable.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain our infrastructure with high standards for privacy and performance
• Further automate our data processing pipeline, including building out our AI operations
• Build beautiful interfaces that simplify multi-modal medical data into actionable insights
• Ship fast and iterate quickly, working directly with our team (incl. CTO, CPO, designer) and users
• Ensure adherence to healthcare security and data privacy standards
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code
• Help define our development processes and engineering culture

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with software development in one or more typed programming languages
• Consumer(-grade) front-end skills in React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS
• You (know when to) use AI to superpower your coding velocity
• Experience working with cloud (GCP preferred), RESTful APIs, and secure data handling
• Familiarity with privacy-focused, regulated environments like healthcare or fintech
• You've done something in your technical career that stands out, whether it's starting your own company, getting into an amazing university, or launching something that blew up on the interwebs

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and event-driven architectures
• Proficiency in Python and knowledge of medical data formats (e.g., FHIR, DICOM, NIfTI)
• Experience in a fast-paced startup and/or 0-to-1 product development
• Background in CI/CD, automated testing, and integrating edge devices

Soft Skills

• Detail-oriented and quality-driven, especially in high-trust domains like healthcare
• Strong communicator with a collaborative, pragmatic, and solutions-first mindset

Benefits

• Competitive salary: EUR 120–160K
• 1–1.5% equity
• Meaningful work: shape the future of preventative healthcare
• Flexibility to work remotely (±2 CET) with the option to be based in Zurich or Munich (sorry, we can’t provide relocation assistance at this time)
• Small, experienced, technical, and mission-led team with backgrounds from top tech companies
• Ownership, autonomy, and the chance to set engineering foundations that matter

We believe inclusive teams build better products.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet 100% of the requirements — we still encourage you to apply. Let’s build something meaningful together.