fastapi developer for clinical AI

Kaiko is building a next-generation agentic clinical AI assistant that helps clinicians reason across patient data, guidelines, and diagnostics. Its system maintains longitudinal patient context across encounters, clinicians, and institutions, supporting collaboration, second opinions, complex diagnostic workflows, human oversight, auditability, and regulatory alignment. The company is also developing specialized diagnostic agents for oncology, radiology, and pathology in collaboration with leading hospitals and research centers.

• Develop and maintain Backend services using Python (FastAPI), Helm, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Postgres;
• Own the delivery of Backend work within focused, interdisciplinary, feature-driven squads;
• Support other internal teams;
• Shape and refine development practices;
• Take ownership of shipping features;
• Help shape technical requirements;
• Maintain quality standards and product stability.

• Have at least 5 years of experience delivering high-quality software and maintaining it in production;
• Understand software engineering fundamentals, best practices, and software architecture tradeoffs;
• Take ownership of deliverables and understand the value features bring to end users;
• Communicate proactively with stakeholders and surface issues or uncertainties early;
• Work pragmatically and factually with ambiguity;
• Challenge assumptions and resolve ambiguity;
• Advocate for ideas while letting evidence and product impact guide decisions;
• Have experience with Python (FastAPI), Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Postgres, or similar technologies;
• Understand cloud-native principles and best practices;
• Have delivered scalable and resilient solutions on at least one major public cloud platform;
• Nice to have: experience in a dynamic, fast-growth scale-up environment, experience in a highly regulated field such as medicine, experience working on an AI-adjacent product.

• Attractive and competitive salary;
• Good pension plan;
• 25 Vacation days per year;
• Great offsites and team events;
• EUR 1000 learning and development budget;
• Autonomy to choose a working approach;
• Annual commuting subsidy;
• Based in either The Netherlands or Switzerland;
• At least 50% of working time is expected to be spent at the office;
• Onsite meeting may be included in the interview process.