As Staff Software Engineer (m/f/d) you are the engineer who makes hard, unclear or broken things tractable. You know how our platform works end to end and you shape it as you go. Your focus is our full-stack platform: the web application our doctors, our optician partners, and their customers use daily, and the services behind it.
This is an individual contributor role. No direct reports, real technical authority: you set direction on architecture and engineering practice, and you build in the same codebase as everyone else in the team. Staff/Senior here means deeper, not further from the code. Your job is to keep our systems fast to iterate, reliable in production, and ready for international expansion and scaling.

• Own the architecture of our full-stack platform – frontend, backend, data, AWS – and evolve it under real product pressure instead of rewriting it
• Own our testing strategy: where we invest in unit, integration and end-to-end coverage, what we deliberately do not test, and how tests stay fast enough that nobody skips them
• Push our agentic coding practice forward: tooling, guardrails and testing discipline that make us faster without putting unverified code into a live product
• Shape scope together with product: surface the cheap 80 % solution, and say clearly when something is not worth building
• Build so that what ships is operable and auditable by design (e.g. ISO 27001, ISO 13485), without turning engineering into paperwork
• Go wherever the problem is – a scaling bottleneck one week, a broken integration the next – you fix it properly

• Several years of professional software engineering experience (roughly 7+), most of it on systems that reached real users
• Deeply hands-on across the stack: strong in the frontend, at home in the backend, comfortable in the infrastructure and web technologies around it
• A strong background in TypeScript, and well-formed opinions you can defend and revise
• A clear product focus: you care about what ships, what runs, and what users experience
• You speak fluent English (C1); German is a plus

• Experience in a start-up or scale-up where speed and quality both mattered
• Comfort taking ownership and shaping processes nobody has defined yet
• A degree in a STEM field – equivalent practical experience counts more
• Exposure to regulated software, medical devices or health data

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work with home office options
• Subsidized Deutschlandticket (public transport pass) for employees
• Personal learning & development budget for trainings, conferences, and professional growth
• High level of ownership, fast decision-making, and real opportunities to help shape the company
• Regular feedback, short decision paths, and individual development opportunities
• International team with close collaboration, regular exchange, and shared team events
• Collaboration with experts from optometry, ophthalmology, software & AI development, and strategy consulting
• Monthly contribution toward a Wellpass membership
• Free access to Nilo Health for mental health and wellbeing
• Competitive salary matching your role and experience
• Modern, dog-friendly office in the heart of Munich, close to the main train station (Hauptbahnhof)
• Contributing to a leading teleophthalmology platform that sustainably improves access to eye care
• Established B2B2C model with over 800 partner optician locations and more than 500,000 screenings performed

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