Founding Full-Stack Engineer for AI-Powered Life Sciences SaaS

Role: Founding Full-Stack Engineer

Space: AI / Life Sciences SaaS

Location: New York City, Onsite 5 days a week

Interested in joining an ambitious early-stage team building AI-powered software for the healthtech industry?

Meet is currently partnered with a rapidly growing, venture-backed company transforming how life sciences organisations build, approve and launch commercial content. This is an exciting opportunity to join as an early engineering hire, working closely with the founders to build production-grade AI applications used by leading pharmaceutical teams.

The role will focus on owning key parts of the product, from backend services and APIs through to LLM agents, infrastructure, integrations and deployment pipelines.

Expectations:

• Build and scale core backend services, APIs and application workflows
• Develop reliable systems for ingestion, retrieval, annotation and compliance-focused processes
• Package and deploy LLM/RAG agents into production environments
• Build background job systems, queues and workflows for scheduling, retries and processing at scale
• Work across cloud infrastructure, deployment, secrets management, networking and autoscaling
• Develop integrations with enterprise platforms used across pharmaceutical marketing and content workflows
• Support file processing, OCR, embedding pipelines and metadata enrichment across documents and images

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• Collaborate directly with the founders on product direction, technical decisions and startup growth
• Contribute across the full stack, including frontend development where needed

Requirements:

• Strong full-stack engineering background with experience building and deploying production software
• Hands-on experience with Python, FastAPI, Docker and AWS
• Experience designing APIs, backend services, distributed workflows and scalable application architecture
• Exposure to LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows or AI-based product development
• Strong understanding of databases, caching, queues and cloud-based systems
• Ability to work independently, make decisions and take ownership in a fast-paced startup environment
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working closely with founders, product teams and customers
• Strong engineering fundamentals with the ability to ship quickly while maintaining reliable, observable systems

Nice to have:

• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph or similar LLM orchestration frameworks
• Experience with Celery, Redis, Postgres, Pinecone or other vector databases

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• Exposure to pharma, life sciences, healthcare or regulated industries
• Experience building integrations with enterprise platforms such as Veeva, Adobe or Figma
• Background working in early-stage startups or high-growth engineering environments
• Interest in AI applications across commercialisation, compliance or pharmaceutical marketing

Benefits:

• Competitive NYC compensation: $150,000–$275,000 depending on experience
• Ground-floor equity opportunity
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Visa sponsorship available
• Professional growth stipend
• Relocation support
• High-velocity, high-impact startup environment

Please apply above if interested and connect with the hiring manager!