As a Founding Full-Stack Engineer at Kensai Technologies, you will lead the 0→1 development of our intelligence engine. You’ll architect global Postgres schemas, build scrapers for hostile regulatory data, and integrate LLM reasoning layers. This role is perfect for a builder who craves high autonomy and wants to solve massive data challenges in the health sector.
Founding Full-Stack Engineer at Kensai Technologies
Join Kensai Technologies as a Founding Full-Stack Engineer and build the engine transforming complex health and wellness regulations into actionable data. Founded by an elite team from Palantir and P&G, Kensai is tackling the trillion-dollar challenge of product compliance for the world's largest brands. You’ll own the 0→1 development of AI-native pipelines, hostile data scrapers, and global schemas, working directly with founders to ship at an unfair speed. With founding equity and high autonomy, this is your chance to architect a category-defining intelligence platform from scratch, either in Zurich or remotely.
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Location
Zurich, Switzerland or Remote
Compensation
Not Disclosed + Founding Equity
Company
Kensai Technologies
Role overview
B2B Consumer Regulated Health2-10 employees
Kensai builds regulated product intelligence for health, wellness and beauty products. We turn the claims, evidence, certifications and supplier documents behind each SKU into structured, source-checked profiles. This helps brands and retailers reduce repeated manual review, create clearer product pages, expand faster and prepare regulated products for AI-driven discovery.
What you will do
- Build sophisticated scrapers and pipelines to extract and structure data from hostile sources like locked PDFs and complex government portals.
- Design and scale a global, multi-country Postgres schema and robust infrastructure on AWS or GCP for high-quality data delivery.
- Implement AI plumbing by connecting raw data to LLM reasoning layers to produce reliable, high-trust output for regulated product intelligence.
Who this is a fit for
- At least 4 years of experience building complex APIs and systems from scratch, ideally as a founder or early-stage startup employee.
- Pragmatic full-stack capabilities with a backend focus, proficient in React, and experienced in using AI-assisted development to accelerate shipping velocity.
- Obsessed with data quality and web scraping, with a deep understanding of how to integrate LLMs into production-grade data pipelines.
Why this role is remarkable
- Exceptional founding team including a 3x scale-up operator from Palantir/P&G and a medical doctor who founded Switzerland’s first venture-backed longevity clinic.
- True 0→1 ownership with founding equity, offering significant stakeholder influence and the chance to architect a global intelligence platform from day one.
- High-impact mission solving critical compliance and data challenges for the world’s largest health brands using cutting-edge, AI-native development workflows.
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