Founding Engineer

Why Thea Care

At Thea Care we are bringing the highest standard of dermatological skincare advice into every customer interaction.

Skincare shouldnt be guesswork. We help users truly understand their skin so they can confidently choose products that work for them over time.

We help skincare brands bring AI precision to customer interactions. Our whitelabel face scan delivers skin insights that are both scientifically rigorous and easy to understand. Behind the scenes we run cuttingedge AI models trained on over 50000 images performing thousands of realworld skin analyses every week.

Were already powering:

• 3000 skin scans every week
• 6figure ARR
• clients like NUXE Paris Almirall Cura Cosmetics Group Klinge Pharma and other leading ecommerce platforms

Were bootstrapped and profitable. That means no investor distractions just a relentless focus on building great product.

Why now

AI unlocks skincare analysis that was never possible before. And consumers expect more personalized advice than ever. Were turning smartphone cameras into dermatologygrade toolsand brands into trusted skin advisors. The space is wide open and were moving fast.

Tasks

About the Role

Were looking for a Founding Engineer to join us in building the future of skincare AI no matter your background or gender identity if youre excited about our mission wed love to hear from you. While this is a foundinglevel role daytoday its a mix of senior fullstack engineering product thinking and a bias for shipping.

• Build product endtoend (frontend backend)
• You own the stack You take responsibility over the codebase and move with urgency/high velocity.
• Write and connect APIs work with Supabase and other microservices
• Deploy webapps to AWS currently with infra in ECS and Amplify
• Collaborate closely with CEO and CTO on product development access domainknowledge from our dermatologist CMO
• Join a small handson team where everyone still wears multiple hats

Requirements

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React TypeScript
• Backend: Python Supabase Node
• Infra: AWS (ECS Amplify) Clerk GitHub
• AI: PyTorch OpenAI
• Product Analytics: Posthog

We value smart pragmatism and customercentricity over specific tech experience.

What makes you a great fit

• Youre a senior engineer with strong fullstack experience
• You love building real features for real users
• Youre comfortable owning things endtoend (infra included)
• Youre productminded and lean by default
• You want to work in person in Berlin with a small driven team
• Bonus: youve worked with AR computer vision cameraintensive web applications or before

What might make this less of a match

• You strongly prefer working fully remotely (were mostly onsite in Berlin Potsdam)
• Youre just starting out and havent worked on software teams yet
• You only want to work with specific technologies instead of the entire development stack
• You thrive in large teams with more structure were still lean and handson

Benefits

Perks & Compensation

• Salary: 60k80k
• Equity: 0.5% 2.0%
• Great tech hub office in BerlinSchneberg ( in office in Potsdam)
• Access to any (AI) tool that makes you more productive
• Opportunity to deepen your skills in AI especially in training and deploying modern AI models

If youre excited to build AI that already helps thousands and scale that to millions wed love to hear from you.