Founding Product Engineer

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**About Pling ** 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 don't 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 Pling's technical architecture and codes alongside the team. Tasks The role You'll own Pling's 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. You'll prove that with us. What you'll 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 Pling's 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 6–9+

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