Forward Deployed Engineer - Barcelona, SPAIN
Go into a business that has never been automated, work out how it actually runs, and have something working in front of them in two weeks. Then hand it over properly, and go and do it somewhere else.
Mainloop is a new engineering team inside an established international group. We are in Barcelona, we are being built from scratch this year, and we have the backing, the customers and the product portfolio of a company that has been around for decades. You get the interesting part of a new team without the part where you check whether payroll clears.
Two more things about where this comes from and where it goes. The group has been running a tech lab in Casablanca for more than eight years — Barcelona is its second, built to sit closer to the teams we build for, and AI-native from the first commit, because it starts from a blank page. And the plan does not stop at internal work: within about a year and a half we intend to externalise — external clients, our products sold on the market, products developed for it.



The first eighteen months are deliberately spent building as much as possible for the group while the machine gets set up. You would arrive at the start of that curve, not after it.
What we build is the software that automates professional-services work — across roughly fifteen countries, for businesses drowning in administration. That is the material: the admin. The forms, the approvals, the reconciliations, the eleven-day handoffs, the spreadsheet somebody rebuilds every month. We work in two halves. One half — this half — goes into a business, finds out what really happens there, and builds something fast enough to prove whether it is worth having. The other half takes what we prove and turns it into something the company depends on.
Most automation teams only have the first half, which is why they end up with a drawer full of demos. Most of the rest only have the second half, which is why they build what somebody

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