Job Title: Engineering Manager (AI) Salary: €100-130k + up to 35% bonus (~20% guaranteed, rest based on performance)
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. 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. — 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 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 Genuine people-management track record - at least 5-6 direct reports, comfortable own

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Wave Group
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