Founding Engineer (all genders)

Gynaecological care the way it's supposed to be: Personalised, easy to reach, effective. Women are diagnosed on average four years later than men, across 770 different diseases. They spend 25 % more of their lives in poor health. That is the gender health gap, and science says two things keep it open: too little access to specialists in women's health, and far too little research on women in the first place. femote works on both. Step One: we turn ordinary statutory gynaecological practices into digital care champions. So that the specialists we do have can care for more patients properly, within the resources they are given. Step Two: we turn generalist doctors into specialists by equipping them with clinical diagnostic and decision support built specifically for women's health, trained on data collected by Step One. Where we stand Supported by leaders of the German gynaecological medical associations Backed by industry angels from pharmaceuticals and medical publishing Innovation grant secured from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Part of the Lausitz Model Region, giving us deep integration into the statutory system and reach to women regardless of their spending power MVP in pilot phase with real practices (Stack: Flutter, Supabase, Postgres. Up for debate once you join) Pre-seed stage, with funding in place to bring you on Tasks We are looking for our first engineer to build femote's product and shape the technical foundation it grows on. As our founding engineer, you will build our first SaaS product, a patient app and a professional interface, under European General Product Safety Regulation guidelines in the first year while we prepare for medical device certification in year two. Every case we capture is structured so it can carry clinical evidence later, which is what makes algorithmic and decision-support features possible at all. You will not build those alone, but you need to direct that work, and the architecture that makes it possible has to be laid now. Requirements We value smartness, humility and the ability to learn and adapt quickly over hard skills on paper. Please apply, even if you don't tick all the boxes. What you have done Experience running a SaaS product from building to shipping to operating in production Strong data modelling and processing, including consent, provenance and pseudonymisation, so captured data can lawfully support clinical evidence and model training later Bonus: experience building algorithmic or AI-enabled features Bonus: experience building in a regulated field (MDR, AI Act, or similar) Bonus: German speaking, though not required How you work You ship fast without lowering the bar. Short iteration cycles and pragmatic solutions, with engineering practices solid enough to stand up to a notified body. You set the pattern, not just the code. Everything the first engineer does becomes the default for everyone after. You write it down, you teach it, and you build with that in mind. You do not think in taboos. You will be reading about discharge, bleeding and pelvic pain at nine in the morning and building interfaces for it. If that is awkward for you, this is not your role. You want to understand why we are doing this in gynaecology. You do not have to arrive as an expert in women's health, and we are happy to offer a steep learning curve. The curiosity has to be yours. You are reflective. You take feedback without putting armour on, and you say when you are stuck rather than when it is already too late. Benefits Meaningful equity as hurdle shares or an instrument with equivalent tax treatment. Genuine ownership of the technical direction Full-time, with flexible working hours Room to grow into the CTO role: owning medical device certification, security and data handling, the engineering team you hire around you, and representing femote's technical direction to regulators, partners and investors. Our hiring process Conversation with Frederi