What the role is about
We are looking for a Founding Head of Engineering, the person who owns engineering at CommerceClarity.
You own the function: the architecture, the technical bar, delivery, and the four engineers on the team.

This is a hybrid role: base yourself anywhere in the EU and travel to Milan and Barcelona once a month.

What you would own
The core platform architecture and the technology choices behind it. You stay a product builder.
The engineering standards: code quality, review, testing, and what counts as done.
The team. You manage it and you grow it.
The technical roadmap with the CPTO, and what engineering commits to.
Data architecture for high-volume catalog work: millions of SKUs, many languages, many channels.
Infrastructure and the operational bar: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, security, high availability, incident response.
The definition of what the platform can do with AI.

Who you are
Essential
You have managed engineers directly.
Around ten years building platforms or SaaS, with architecture you actually owned.




You have built inside an early-stage startup.
You are fluent at using LLMs to orchestrate several coding agents.
You have shipped AI agents: prompting, tool use, orchestration, evals.
Deep data architecture knowledge under real traffic.
Comfortable deciding on incomplete information, and iterating fast.
Clear with technical and business stakeholders alike, and you hold your position when it matters.
Based in the EU, able to travel to Milan and Barcelona once a month.
Fluent English.
Preferred
Retail and ecommerce experience.
You have built software for large enterprises.
You have been a technical co-founder.

The team you would join
Our founders have spent their careers building and operating retail at scale. They have founded retail companies generating tens of millions in revenue, launched and scaled Amazon’s operations in Italy and Spain, led operations at Everli across more than 2,000 employees, and shaped produc

📌 Founding Head of Engineering (Barcelona)
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