Founding Product Engineer

**About Pling
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Pling builds the operational backbone for medical practices starting in dentistry. Most dental software handles the patient journey (documentation treatment plans billing) we handle the operations enabling it: equipment management regulatory compliance team coordination service procurement a segment the wider industry has largely overlooked. Our vision: expand horizontally into other medical specialties and vertically into a marketplace connecting practices with manufacturers technicians and service providers.

• Six-digit ARR 90% gross margins growing 4x year over year
• Proven product-market fit with a diverse customer base from single practitioners to enterprise-level dental chains
• Bootstrapped by design profitable growing without external capital raising our first round in Q4/Q1
• Sticky by design compliance obligations make Pling mission-critical infrastructure; once integrated customers dont churn

The team

The founding team combines deep startup product and domain expertise.

• Paolo (CEO) Stanford-educated spent 8 years in Silicon Valley where he built and sold a startup ex-BCG two prior exits
• Henrik (CPO) ex-BCG N26 ImmoScout24 early-stage startups
• Jonas (CMO) former clinician at Uniklinik Düsseldorf ran his own practice self-taught engineer. Currently owns Plings technical architecture and codes alongside the team.

Tasks

The role

Youll own Plings architecture and code strategy and execution. The role is hands-on and impact-driven: you contribute to product discussions alongside the founders then own the full technical lifecycle architecture implementation deployment monitoring and continuous improvement in production with a focus on real-world reliability and business impact.

Your mandate is to architect and ship the platform that takes Pling to the next 10x of customers and locations AI-native by design built to scale across multi-site groups across Europe and to build the development pipeline that makes our shipping velocity hard to match.

We believe a small AI-augmented engineering team can outship teams five times its size. Youll prove that with us.

What youll do

• Build complete features end-to-end data model to API to UI
• Own the technical direction architecture infrastructure security performance
• Design and own the LLM pipelines that power Plings AI features prompt design structured outputs evals monitoring cost tracking
• Set engineering standards across code and AI features testing CI/CD observability code review on one side; eval harnesses regression checks and quality metrics tied to business outcomes on the other
• Define and lead the migration to our next-generation architecture the stack choices are yours to shape
• Build the development pipeline that makes our shipping velocity hard to match
• Hire and lead bring on the next engineer when the time is right and define how the team works

Requirements

Experience

• 69 years building production software in fast-paced environments with at least 2 years focused on LLM-powered features in production
• Pragmatic about architecture and tradeoffs; youve learned that good engineering usually means removing complexity not adding it
• Comfort across the stack backend center of gravity but able to ship end-to-end
• Production experience with Python TypeScript/ and modern databases (SQL and NoSQL)

AI-native fluency

• Deep practical understanding of LLM behavior: prompting structured outputs context window management common failure modes handling non-determinism and writing evals that catch regressions before users do
• Pragmatic about model selection pick across providers (Claude GPT Gemini open-weights) based on cost latency and quality tradeoffs for each use case
• Know when not to reach for an LLM. A lot of good engineering is knowing when a regex a lookup table or deterministic code is the right answer. You hate AI slop as much as you love AI leverage.
• Follow the field actively and adopt new tools when they earn it.

Builder mindset

• Youd rather build than manage. AI excites you because it lets you ship at a scale you couldnt before.

Engineering excellence

• Code quality is a habit not an afterthought: testing review quality gates
• Strong on operational excellence: security reliability performance observability
• Confident with CI/CD and production deployments

Collaboration

• Clear communicator who explains technical trade-offs to founders customers and future hires
• Balance speed quality and long-term sustainability in your decisions
• Fluent English. German is a big plus our customers operate in German

Benefits

Why Pling

• Strong traction in an attractive niche. Profitable growing fast in a category few others are addressing.
• An ambitious platform vision. Horizontal expansion to other medical specialties and a vertical marketplace dimension both within reach.
• Equity anchored at pre-fundraise valuation. Because we havent raised yet the upside on equity granted now is materially higher than it will be even six months from now.
• Dynamic fast-paced environment with experienced founder-operators and domain experts direct access fast decisions.
• AI-native team. Everyone at Pling uses AI as a daily tool.
• Remote-first today with regular team meetups in Berlin. Hybrid options as we open offices.
• 30 days of PTO.

Pleasy apply with a short message:

• why this role
• what youd bring
• something youve built
• CV or LinkedIn