{"id":1041801,"url":"https://alion.io/job/senvo-founding-head-of-engineering-2","title":"Founding Head of Engineering","company":{"id":691998,"name":"Senvo","domain":"senvo.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/senvo","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Join","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Berlin, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":98000,"max_usd":223000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":16},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Anthropic","optional":true},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":true},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-16T12:02:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-16","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T18:17:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":112,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":111},"description":"We're building what engineering looks like after AI.\nNot by adding AI tools to traditional workflows, but by rebuilding the way software is designed, built, and shipped from first principles.\nSenvo is an AI-native logistics infrastructure company helping some of Europe's largest shippers recover millions in carrier overcharges, automate logistics operations, and transform fragmented carrier data into financial intelligence. We already process millions of shipments every month, and everything we build is shaped around agentic engineering and AI-native workflows.\nWe're looking for a founding technical leader to build that future with us.\nThis is not a management role. It's a builder's role.\nIt's an all-encompassing role for a hands-on visionary, someone who wants to shape our architecture, our culture, our workflows and our product from first principles.\nYou'll spend your first months deep in production Python, working directly with the founder to shape our platform architecture while defining how engineering should operate as we scale. You'll shape our architecture, engineering culture, AI workflows, hiring, and technical direction from day one.\nIf you've been looking for the opportunity to build an engineering organisation from first principles rather than inheriting one, this is it.\nTasks\nRather than simply leading engineers, you'll build the engineering organisation itself.\nOver your first 12-24 months you'll own:\nOwn the platform. Shape the evolution of Senvo's auditing platform around agentic workflows, modern backend architecture, and AI-native software development.\nDefine our AI operating system. Design how humans and AI collaborate across engineering. Build the workflows, tooling, review processes and operating principles that allow a small team to ship like a much larger one.\nSet the technical direction. Own our architecture, platform strategy and technical roadmap. Make the long-term decisions that determine how Senvo scales over the next five years.\nBuild an exceptional engineering team. Hire outstanding engineers, coach them, and set an uncompromising quality bar.\nDefine our engineering culture. Set the values, standards and rituals that will attract exceptional engineers over the next decade. The culture you build now is the culture we scale.\nIncrease engineering velocity. Own the metrics that matter. Continuously improve quality, speed, reliability and developer leverage.\nMake high-conviction technology decisions. Decide what we build ourselves, what we buy, and where AI fundamentally changes how software should be built.\nWhat success looks like\nDuring your first year you'll:\nShip the next version of our auditing platform, built around AI-native workflows.\nEstablish the engineering operating model for the company.\nHire 2-4 exceptional engineers.\nDramatically increase engineering velocity through agentic development.\nDefine the architecture that powers Senvo's next stage of growth.\nRequirements\nYou're a builder first. You enjoy writing production code as much as leading technical strategy. You want founding-level ownership, not a large management hierarchy.\nDeep Python expertise. You've built and shipped production backend systems and are comfortable taking ownership of complex architectures from day one.\nAI-native engineering. You already use tools like Cursor, Claude Code or Codex every day. You're not experimenting with AI. You're building with it. You believe the biggest engineering advantage of the next decade will come from teams that learn to orchestrate humans and AI together.\nTechnical leadership. You've led high-performing engineering teams before, but you still enjoy being one of the strongest individual contributors.\nProduct and systems thinking. You design systems that survive years, not launches. You think clearly before you build. You optimise for simplicity, leverage and operational excellence.\nOwnership. You don't wait for permission. You take responsibility for outcomes, make decisions with incomplete information and raise the standard around you.\nOur stack\nCurrent technologies include:\nPython\nFastAPI\nPostgreSQL\nOpenAI & Anthropic APIs\nCursor / Claude Code\nModern cloud infrastructure\nWe're pragmatic about tools and expect you to evolve the stack as the company grows.\nBenefits\nFounding-level ownership and meaningful equity.\nDirect partnership with the founder.\nThe opportunity to define what AI-native engineering looks like in practice.\nA small, ambitious team with exceptionally high standards.\nFull relocation support to Berlin.\nTop-tier hardware and generous AI tooling budget.\nUrban Sports Club membership.\nSix weeks work-from-anywhere each year.\nWe're not looking for someone to manage engineering. 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