Staff Software Engineer (m/f/d) for telemedicine platform

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