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As we expand our product portfolio and modernize our platform, we’re looking for a versatile, pragmatic, and forward-thinking (Senior) Full-Stack Engineer (m/f/x) to help shape the future of digital therapeutics.\nYour Role\nYou’ll join a cross-functional product team with high ownership, lean processes, and a clear focus: deliver real impact to patients. We’re looking for someone who thrives on solving real-world problems with code, is technology-open, and knows when to build fast and when to build right. Your main focus will be building and improving our backend services, while also contributing to our React Native apps. You’ll also help us use AI tools and coding agents thoughtfully in day-to-day engineering, turning emerging capabilities into reliable workflows that improve how we design, build, test, and operate patient-facing products.\nYour Responsibilities\nDesign, build, and operate reliablebackend services and APIs, primarily using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL, and contribute targeted changes to our React Native applications with TypeScript.\nUse AI coding agents to implement features, refactor code, and generate tests. Define clear tasks and constraints, provide relevant context, Provide clear context and constraints, and validate changes through code review, automated tests, and application-level checks.\nTake an end-to-end view of features: understand how mobile clients, APIs, data models, and infrastructure interact, and make pragmatic technical decisions across these boundaries.\nOwn backend delivery from architecture and implementation to automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration, and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines.\nImprove theperformance and reliability of our backend services, APIs, and databases.\nConnect AI-assisted development to engineering and design tools via MCP, for example to automate repetitive coding tasks or check frontend changes against Figma designs. Keep patient data, credentials, and other sensitive information out of unapproved tools and workflows.\nCollaborate closely with Product, Design, and Medical to explore, define, and deliver patient-centric features across our platform, supporting regulated digital health products for IBS, GERD, and upcoming indications.\nUphold technical excellence inarchitecture, code quality, and security, including applicable requirements under IEC 62304, BSI TR-03161, and the MDR. \nMentor other developers and help raise the technical bar across the team.\nRequirements\nYour Profile\nMust haves\n5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong backend focus and an understanding of how complete applications work from user interface to infrastructure.\nStrong backend development skills in an established language such as Python, TypeScript, Java, or PHP. Our current stack includes Python, Django, and PostgreSQL.\nWorking knowledge of React Native and TypeScript, with the ability to implement and test changes in an existing mobile application.\nSolid understanding of relational databases, API design, distributed systems and services.\nExperience writing and maintaining automated tests for backend services and APIs, including unit and integration tests.\nSolid understanding of backend security and privacy, including authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure handling of personal and patient data.\nStrong practical knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architecture, with experience using GCP or another major cloud provider such as AWS or Azure.\nHands-on experience usingAI coding agents to implement features, refactor code, and write automated tests, including connecting agents to engineering tools via MCP. You can explain how you scoped the work, verified the results, and handled tool permissions and sensitive data.\nA pragmatic product mindset: you collaborate effectively with non-technical stakeholders, understand the impact of technical decisions on patients and UX, and continuously improve both product and platform.\nNice-to-have\nStrong Linux administration skills, including setting up, operating, and securing self-managed cloud instances; familiarity with monitoring and observability concepts.\nExperience with Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana; GitOps using ArgoCD or FluxCD; or configuration management using Ansible or similar tools.\nNetworking knowledge and experience withmobile CI/CD, release automation, or application monitoring tools such as Sentry.\nExperience in regulated industries, healthcare, or other security-conscious environments.\nPlease note: Cara Care is a remote-first company with a fully distributed team. All team members are based in Germany so candidates must reside in Germany to join us.\nBenefits\nFair compensation: We offer fair pay, regular salary reviews, and the equipment you need to do your best work.\nGreat team spirit: Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary team and enjoy a friendly, supportive working atmosphere, with regular in-person team events.\nRemote-first working: Prefer working from home? No problem. Want to join us at our Berlin office? That works too. Our remote-first approach gives you the flexibility to work where it suits you best.\n30 days off per year: Rest matters. You’ll get 26 vacation days plus 4 additional company-wide mental health days each year to take a breather and recharge.\nFlexible working hours: Whether you’re an early bird or prefer a later start, you can shape your working day around what works for you.\nUrban Sports Club (USC): Enjoy access to a wide range of sports, fitness, and wellness activities at discounted rates.\nOpenUp: Access a variety of resources and services to support your mental health and personal wellbeing.\nCorporate Benefits: Get attractive discounts and exclusive offers from a wide range of well-known brands and providers.\nMake a real impact: Be involved, contribute your ideas, and help shape what comes next. Your voice matters, and you can make a real difference.\nAbout Cara Care\nCara Care is a digital health company on a mission to improve the lives of people with digestive health conditions through holistic, science-based digital therapies.\nOur established IBS therapy, Cara Care für Reizdarm, provides personalised content, practical exercises, and symptom tracking to help people better understand and manage their condition. It is listed in the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices’ (BfArM) directory of digital health applications (DiGA) and is covered by statutory health insurance in Germany.\nWe are expanding our product portfolio and evolving our technology platform to bring digital therapies to more people across a broader range of conditions.\nBacked by Bayer\nWe’re proud to share that Cara Care has recently joined the Bayer Group, a move that strengthens our mission and enables us to scale our impact even further. With Bayer’s global healthcare expertise and our innovative digital approach, we’re poised to redefine care for digestive health.\nWhat It’s Like to Work With Us\nAt Cara Care, you’ll be part of an interdisciplinary team of doctors, designers, engineers, and creatives who are deeply passionate about improving lives. We’re inspired by our patients and driven by real-world impact. We move fast, collaborate closely, and never lose sight of the importance of well-being-both for our users and ourselves.\nDiversity Matters to Us\nWe believe that diverse teams build better products. That’s why we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone-regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability.\nWe know that applying for a new job is a big step, and we genuinely appreciate your time and effort. 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