Staff Software Engineer

C&D Talent Advisory
Barcelona, Spain
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
€ 200K

Job location

Remote
Barcelona, Spain

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Engineering
Code Review
Distributed Systems
Python
Machine Learning
Software Engineering
Software Systems
TypeScript
Reinforcement Learning
Rust
React
Large Language Models
Multi-Agent Systems
Reliability of Systems
Backend
Free and Open-Source Software

Job description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and scaling the core systems powering next-generation healthcare AI products. You will work on AI-driven patient communication, intelligent triage, agent orchestration, secure healthcare data infrastructure, and low-latency voice and video systems. Beyond hands-on engineering, you will influence architecture decisions, improve system reliability, and support the growth of other engineers through technical leadership and mentorship. What You'll Do

  • Architect and scale distributed systems supporting healthcare AI applications
  • Design and improve agent orchestration platforms and AI-driven workflows
  • Build secure healthcare data layers and enterprise-grade integrations
  • Develop systems leveraging LLMs, reinforcement learning, and agent-based architectures
  • Drive architecture decisions and technical strategy
  • Improve scalability, reliability, performance, and operational excellence
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
  • Collaborate closely with founders and a small, high-performing engineering team

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience building complex production-grade software systems
  • Strong expertise in Python and backend system design
  • Proven experience designing scalable distributed architectures
  • Experience owning technical decisions and system reliability at scale
  • Ability to transform ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Strong software engineering and systems-thinking capabilities
  • Experience working within startup, scale-up, or high-growth environments
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, * Experience with AI, machine learning, LLMs, or agentic systems
  • Healthcare technology, clinical systems, or health data experience
  • Experience with Go, Rust, TypeScript, React, AWS, or cloud-native architectures
  • Open-source contributions, hackathons, or notable technical side projects
  • Experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineering teams
  • Experience building products in highly regulated or mission-critical environments

Benefits & conditions

  • €100,000 - €200,000 annual compensation
  • Equity participation
  • Fully remote work across the European Union
  • Flexible employment structure (Permanent or B2B)
  • Direct access to founders and strategic decision-making
  • High-impact work with real-world healthcare outcomes
  • Opportunity to help build category-defining AI technology

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the future of AI-powered healthcare while working on technically challenging systems at scale, we'd love to hear from you...

About the company

Our client is a stealth healthcare AI startup building the future of healthcare delivery through intelligent agent systems. Their vision is to create AI agents capable of performing doctor-level and nurse-level tasks, helping make healthcare more accessible, scalable, and efficient worldwide.

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