Shortlists · Permanent · Europe, CET plus or minus two hours · Barcelona strongly preferred
Why this role exists
Shortlists is an AI-native recruitment CRM and ATS for recruitment agencies. We are building the assistant recruiters actually want: opinionated, does the work, does not just store records.
The AI is not a feature at the edge of this product. It is the product. So this is an AI engineering role as much as a full-stack one, and the two are not separable here.
The product is ahead of the team, which is a good problem and a temporary one. So this is not a role where you pick tickets off a queue. It is a role where you take a surface, own it, and make the calls on it. If you are the sort of engineer who has been waiting for permission to do that, this is the job.
Where we are
We are a Bifrost Forge company with a fast-growing customer base in Northern Europe. We are adding new customers all the time, so we are growing the team.
That means there is real product and real customers to work on, and more ambition than there are people,



so what you own will be larger than your title suggests. As the team grows around you, you will have had the most context of anyone in it.
Tasks
What you will do
Own one or two product surfaces end to end: the UI, the Postgres schema underneath, the edge functions in between, the deploy, and what happens after it.
Build and operate the LLM-backed parts of the product: prompts, retrieval, evals, cost and latency, and validating output you cannot fully trust.
Turn a customer objection or a call transcript into shipped product, making the judgement calls in the middle yourself.
Build with agents as your normal working method, and take responsibility for what they produce.
Make the codebase easier for the next person and the next agent: sharper rules, better skills, gates that catch problems before a human reads the PR.
Talk to the people using this. Our customers are recruiters who will tell you exactly what is broken.
How we work
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📌 AI Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Bifrost Studios
📍 Barcelona