Software Engineering Intern (Full-Stack)

About the Role

As a Software Engineering Intern at SANOVIO youll get hands-on experience building the AI-powered procurement infrastructure that tackles one of the biggest and most complex cost problems in European healthcare.

This is a fast-paced hands-on role for aspiring engineers with high agency strong technical curiosity and a builder mindset. Were looking for a full-stack generalist with a frontend affinity. Youre eager to design user flows and implement them in React and TypeScript while learning to own outcomes end-to-end across backend data AI-enabled workflows and cloud deployment. You thrive amid uncertainty move quickly and care deeply about writing clean high-quality code.

If you are a passionate builder who thrives at the intersection of full-stack development and AI this is your opportunity to work directly with the founders contribute to a real product and grow rapidly in a startup scaling toward 10M ARR in 2026.

Tasks

• Contributing to end-to-end product workflows from frontend UX to backend systems data pipelines and edge cases
• Building frontend experiences in React and TypeScript alongside scalable reliable backend systems
• Supporting the design and development of AI-enabled systems including embeddings retrieval and agents that create real operational leverage
• Working on data pipelines for large-scale unstructured data
• Making pragmatic technical decisions on architecture tools and frameworks to balance speed and quality
• Deploying and maintaining software in cloud environments with a you ship it you run it mindset
• Writing clean maintainable and well-tested code with scalable reusable components and APIs
• Collaborating across the stack and learning through code reviews pair programming and mentorship from senior engineers

Requirements

We are looking for ambitious engineering students or recent graduates with a strong foundation in software engineering and a genuine interest in AI. We hire for skill ownership and output.

General Profile

• Generalist mindset with a frontend affinity eager to build across backend data and AI
• Proactive and self-driven able to turn unclear requirements into shipped software
• Fast learner who picks up new technologies and frameworks quickly
• Comfortable iterating closely with users and clients including across different cultures
• Strong problem-solving ability and attention to detail
• Motivated to build excellent software in a fast-paced startup environment
• Willing to work in-person in Munich with a higher intensity than a traditional 95 role

Technical Skillset

• Solid foundation in full-stack software engineering especially React and TypeScript with a good understanding of constructing user flows
• Backend engineering skills ideally with and familiarity with APIs and data modeling
• Experience building software projects (academic personal or professional)
• Familiarity with Docker and cloud environments is a plus
• AI experience is a plus especially embeddings and retrieval structured outputs and tool calling evals and agentic workflows beyond prompt engineering

Communication & Ownership

• You take initiative and enjoy taking responsibility for your work
• You communicate clearly and are comfortable interacting with technical stakeholders and clients
• You actively seek feedback and want to improve rapidly

Bonus if you

• Can share a portfolio of projects shipped products or a GitHub with meaningful work
• Have built workflow-heavy B2B products internal tools or operations software

Benefits

• Great central office in Munich with regular team events and dinners
• Monthly Wellness budget
• Access to any AI or productivity tools you need to do your best work
• International scope & travel
• Flexible work setup with time-zone responsibility
• Full-time offer opportunity

About the interview process

Step 1: Intro Call

Casual intro meeting with one of the founders to get to know each other and introduce SANOVIO.

Step 2: Technical Interview

The technical interview consists of two parts:

• A take-home exercise including a short presentation
• A system design interview

For the take-home exercise well provide you with a task focusing on a real SANOVIO workflow and user flow in React and TypeScript with a light end-to-end angle such as API integration data modeling edge cases and clean architecture. Later youll present your results to us.

Step 3: Personal Fit

Meet another co-founder to get a feel for our culture and working style.

Step 4: Offer

If we see a great fit youll receive an offer.

Were excited to see your application and get to know you!

Noel Alex & Yong

The Founder Team