Job Title: Engineering Lead — AI Agent Platform

Salary: up to ~€130k + up to 35% bonus

Equity: up to ~€80k

Location: Madrid (preferred) or Barcelona (1-2 office days)

Company : autonomous AI agents for enterprise clients

About the company

This rapidly scaling start-up is building an AI-native platform that lets enterprise clients run high-volume operations through autonomous, conversational agents — voice, chat and messaging, deployed across dozens of countries in over 60 languages, for some of the largest employers in the world.

The company's core technical challenge is multi-agent orchestration that stays rock-solid at scale — reliable, secure and observable whether it's deployed for a healthcare provider in the US or a retailer in Latin America.

Founded by an experienced team with two prior successful exits, backed by a top-tier European VC, and already trusted by household-name enterprise customers.

About the role

You'll be the most senior/founding-level engineer (working directly under the CTO/Co-Founder) owning architecture, reliability and scale for a production platform handling real-time,



high-throughput traffic. You'll stay hands-on (writing, reviewing, debugging) while setting technical direction and growing a small, high-performing engineering team.

Must have requirements:

- Deep backend engineering in Python — async/ASGI, Django/Channels, Celery + RabbitMQ/Redis
- Proven experience building and operating high-RPS, distributed, production-grade systems
- Comfort with SQL/NoSQL, cloud infra, CI/CD and production observability
- Strong working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI systems (you don't need to have built the agents yourself, but you understand how they work and what breaks them)
- A genuine "still in the code" mindset — you've led teams without stepping away from building
- Previous team leading experience - at least 2-3 direct reports
- Startup pace and mentality, prioritising ownership over process and titles
- Exposure to conversational/voice AI infrastructure (Twilio/IVR, STT/TTS, latency optimisation)

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