Your role at Ocumeda

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

What makes you a great fit

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

What you can expect from us

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