Founding Senior Software Engineer
Location
Zurich or Munich
Employment
Full-time
TL;DR
Ahead Health is building an AI-powered preventative health platform for Europe
You're a 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. CHF 120–150K (±128-160K EUR) + 1-1,5% equity.
We are Ahead Health
Healthcare is broken. It's reactive, fragmented, and increasingly expensive. While we have more health data than ever before, we're not using it effectively to prevent disease and optimize wellbeing.
That's why we started Ahead Health. We're building an AI-powered platform that transforms how people understand and manage their health, shifting from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. By combining cutting-edge technology with medical expertise, we help people take control of their health journey before problems arise.
The product vision: personal concierge medical care, for everyone. Three key components: (1) A data vault with the most up-to-date picture of your health, (2) a trusted single-point-of-care, and (3) the most extensive, helpful dashboard. More info in our pitch deck.
We're excited to build Europe's leading preventative health platform, starting in Switzerland.
We’re backed by founders and execs from Hugging Face, Cradle, Google, DeepMind, Oviva, Stanford Medicine, GE, Philips, and Coda.
YOUR ROLE
Build from the ground up
Health insights app
Help build our core health insights web application
Look ahead
While building the MVP, keep an eye on what this needs to be at scale
AI/ML integration
Helped by advisors, design and implement our AI architecture, focusing on practical applications of LLMs and computer vision for medical images
Security & compliance
Establish robust security practices and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations from day one
Clinician interface
Build the authoring tools for our doctors and other healthcare professionals
Product development
Work closely with product and healthcare teams to translate complex requirements into elegant solutions
Your role
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.
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
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
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
What we offer
Competitive salary: CHF 120–150K (±128-160K EUR)
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
Did we pique your interest? We'd love to hear from you.
Funded and supported by amazing founders & execs from Hugging Face, Cradle, DeepMind,
GE, Stanford Medicine, Coda, and more.
