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Lead AI Engineer
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Role overview Take end-to-end technical ownership of a live, multi-tenant business software platform and guide its shift toward AI-led product development. You’ll begin as the sole engineer, working directly with the CEO, then help establish engineering practices and grow the team.
Responsibilities - Own the platform’s architecture, application code, infrastructure, security, and releases. - Modernize web and mobile systems using coding agents, automated testing, CI/CD, feature flags, and preview environments. - Build production AI agents for resident requests and operator workflows, with evaluations, safeguards, and privacy protections. - Automate internal sales, customer success, and operations workflows through agents and integrations. - Maintain APIs and data connections with business systems and hardware partners. - Set AI-enabled engineering practices and help hire and mentor future engineers.
Requirements - At least 3 years shipping production software, preferably with broad ownership in a startup or small team. - Strong full-stack TypeScript skills and sound cloud, database, and API fundamentals. - Production experience building LLM features or agents, including tool use, retrieval, and evaluation, with attention to cost and latency. - Regular use of coding agents and experience reviewing and verifying AI-generated code. - Experience improving live systems while preserving reliability, security, and GDPR protections in multi-tenant products. - Familiarity with web and mobile codebases, component-based frontend frameworks, testing, CI/CD, and feature flags. - Fluent English; German is not required.
Nice to have - Cloud, platform, or developer experience in high-scale environments. - Experience as a founding or first engineer, as a founder, or mentoring early teams.
Benefits and work setup - Annual base salary of €100,000–€115,000 depending on experience, plus virtual share options. - Remote across Europe, with occasional paid visits to an office in Düsseldorf. The primary location is Barcelona.