haddock is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to build and lead a new team focused on making their product more reliable: solving complex issues, finding root causes, and using automation and AI to prevent problems from happening again.
Barcelona (Hybrid: at least 2 days in office, Poblenou)
haddock is the market leader solution for point of control in restaurants, handling all back?office vital operations like product management, inventories, purchases, price tracking, document conciliation, bank conciliation, paychecks, clocking in/out, P&L; reports, etc.
Our vision is to lead the market through innovation, strong relationships and by becoming the go?to tech partner for restaurant success.
haddock is backed by Y Combinator, the accelerator behind Airbnb and Twitch.
Many of our restaurants are based right here in Barcelona, and they love haddock.
They talk to customers, deliver quality work, improve our tooling, and are ambitious.
We strongly adhere to the Lean Startup and Agile principles, favoring action over analysis, imperfect iteration over perfect delivery,



and face?to?face communication.
Right now, bug resolution at haddock is handled by a squad of two product engineers who rotate every month.
It works, but it doesn't scale: twelve onboardings a year into the work that needs the most context, variable throughput month to month, and a backlog that goes down when we add people and back up when we take them away.
We're replacing that with a permanent Product Reliability Engineering team, and you'd be the first hire and the one who builds it.
You'll lead two engineers plus a rotating seat from the product engineering team.
on role where 75% of your time is expected to be spent doing software engineering work.
Conceptually, it's similar to a Support Engineering team, but so empowered with AI that we ambition going beyond "just fixing bugs", but actually creating the system and tooling to make haddock highly reliable and have issues quickly fixed.
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