Fullstack Engineer, Heartbeat

• Strong experience in JavaScript/TypeScript, both backend (Node.js) and frontend (React, Vue, or similar)
• Strong understanding of core web fundamentals and framework-less development
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases (we use Postgres)
• Comfort deploying and maintaining containerized applications (e.g., Docker)
• Ability to write testable, robust software with unit and integration tests
• Experience with gRPC and protocol buffers is a plus
• Excellent communication skills in English; openness to learning basic German (we offer support for German classes)
• Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced, and purpose-driven environment
• Proactive, hands-on, and team-oriented mindset

Desirable

• As a Fullstack Engineer at Heartbeat Medical, you will play a key role in shaping our digital platform and services for patients and medical professionals. You'll be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional product and engineering team, working closely with the team leads of Engineering and Product, our product designer, medical content specialists and fellow engineers
• You’ll contribute across the full depth of our system heartbeat OS – backend, frontend, and infrastructure. As we are a health-tech company – testing, safety, and reliability are not just best practices but critical requirements. You'll take ownership of implementing unit and integration tests and work with the team to maintain our high code quality standards
• You will be a key contributor to our mission of making healthcare more patient-centric and digitally supported with an impact on hundreds of patients per week. Our mission is to provide the digital infrastructure for future care and reimbursement to be guided by individual health outcomes – in Germany and beyond
• Develop, test, and maintain scalable features across the full product stack
• Contribute to system architecture and infrastructure decisions
• Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments
• Write clean, testable code and perform code reviews
• Support an increasing use AI tools within the engineering workflow
• Collaborate with PM, designers, engineers, and leadership to deliver product improvements
• Participate in work planning, retrospectives, etc. We use a mixture of kanban and scrum
• Occasionally interact with customers or users to clarify technical questions or issues