Job Title: Engineering Manager (AI)
Salary: €100-130k + up to 35% bonus (~20% guaranteed, rest based on performance)
Equity: up to ~€80k
Location:
Madrid (preferred) or Barcelona (1-2 office days) Company : autonomous AI agents for enterprise clients Team : ~30 Funding : ~$25m (Series A) 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 a senior engineering leader working directly under the CTO/Co-Founder,



with genuine 50/50 weight across technical ownership and people management: On the technical side, you'll own architecture, reliability and scale for a production platform handling real-time, high-throughput traffic, whilst staying hands-on (writing, reviewing, debugging code). On the management side, you'll be growing and running a high-performing AI Engineering team, scaling from ~9 to ~13 in the near future.
This role includes hiring, coaching, career development, performance conversations, comp discussions etc. — not just technical leadership. Must have requirements: Deep backend engineering in Python — async/ASGI, Django/Channels, Celery + Rabbit MQ/Redis Proven experience building and operating high-RPS, distributed, production-grade systems Comfort with SQL/No SQL, cloud infra, CI/CD and production observability Strong working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, and agentic AI systems (you don't need to have bu

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