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May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025

Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Full-Time

Full-Time

Full-Time

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Hybrid

Hybrid

Hybrid

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Athens, Greece

Athens, Greece

We’re Nudge Care, a fast-moving startup on a mission to reinvent how people can build healthier lives, not just for today, but for the years ahead. 

We’re building a product that helps people live longer and better: combining science-backed plans, wearables, labs, and real expert guidance in a beautifully simple app. Think Apple Health meets behavioral science, built on smart data, research, and actual, usable routines.

We’ve got: 

  • early traction: a waitlist of 150 users, with 40 already completing the Nudge protocol.

  • exceptional backing: supported by top angels, including startup CTOs, successful founders (both current and exited), and big-tech executives from Greece and abroad.

  • a bold vision: we'd love to walk you through it on an intro call.

and now we’re ready to expand our founding team with the first full-time (human) engineer. 

About The Role

You’ll be our first full-time engineering hire, ideally a full-stack dev (Node.js + React) with a strong backend mindset. You’ll work side-by-side with the founders (ex-product builders at high-growth startups) and 2 freelancers already laying down the MVP.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and scale our core mobile app and website (backend first, frontend next)

  • Ship features end-to-end, fast and clean

  • Work with product, design, and medical advisors to build something super useful

  • Build internal tools and feedback systems to speed up iteration

  • Plug in AI tools where they make us better, smarter, faster

  • Grow meaningfully, in your role and beyond

About You

  • You know your stuff: 3+ years of experience building full-stack products (Node.js, React, PostgreSQL or similar)

  • You lean backend: You enjoy designing data models, APIs, and scalable logic

  • You get startups: No playbook? No problem. You will help us write it.

  • You’re excited about this space: You’re not a health nut, but the mission should resonate

  • You use AI tools: Not just Sonnet 3.7 on the side, you actively explore and adopt tools that make you faster and better

  • You want a seat at the table: We are open to high-equity packages or cofounder-level discussions if the fit is right

  • You’re based in Greece (Athens preferred): We have a hybrid setup but meet IRL frequently

Bonus Points

  • You’ve worked with AI integrations, architectures, or LLM workflows

  • You’ve built, broken, and shipped, side projects or 0→1 products

  • You care about quality of life and how habits shape it

  • You have solved this

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Why work with us

  • Competitive salary: tailored to your experience and the stage we're at, with the promise to grow as we scale.

  • Significant equity: we believe in ownership; there's no cap for the right person who wants to build with us.

  • A unique opportunity to transform healthcare, shape the future of human-machine collaboration, and tackle frontier engineering challenges

and also: 

  • Direct collaboration with the founders

  • The freedom to define problems, not just solve tickets 

  • Quick execution with just enough process

  • The chance to help build a huge brand, not just work under one

  • And yes, we’re fun (most days): we take our work seriously, but never ourselves.

How to Apply

Send us your CV, portfolio, or LinkedIn/GitHub/Twitter profiles (whatever you’re most proud of), along with a few lines on why you're the right person, to: work@nudge.care.


PS: We don’t mind AI-assisted applications. Just be transparent and add value beyond the tool.

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