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About the role
- Head of Engineering leading software development at AI startup Gemmo. Managing a technical team in delivering AI solutions with focus on quality and architecture.
Responsibilities
- The Head of Engineering is the de facto technical team lead for Gemmo’s software development function.
- You will make real technical decisions, review real code, and have real conversations with clients about architecture.
- Lead and coach a cross-functional team of researchers, backend developers, and data scientists — acting as the team’s technical conscience.
- Own end-to-end software delivery: system design, code quality, testing discipline, PR reviews, and deployment practices.
- Design and document cloud architecture for client projects (primarily Azure), taking responsibility for service selection, cost optimisation, and scalability.
- Manage direct relationships with technical stakeholders at client organisations, translating business requirements into clear engineering plans.
- Liaise with the Chief AI Officer on AI system design, evaluation frameworks (train/validation/test governance), and product direction.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across the team: coding standards, branch strategy, CI/CD, monitoring.
- Identify and unblock technical risks in ongoing projects, particularly multi-agent pipelines and LLM-integrated products.
- Hire, onboard, and mentor software developers; maintain a culture of technical excellence and intellectual curiosity.
- Contribute to technical proposals and scoping documents for new client engagements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a team-lead or engineering-management role
- Demonstrable track record of leading and coaching teams of 5 or more software developers
- Strong backend development background — Python and/or TypeScript; solid understanding of APIs, microservices, and data pipelines
- Cloud architecture expertise — Azure preferred; experience with managed services, storage patterns (blob, NoSQL, relational), authentication, and cost modelling
- System design mindset: comfortable designing distributed systems, reasoning about trade-offs, and communicating architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Fluent in modern engineering practices: Git workflows, code review, automated testing, CI/CD
- Excellent communication skills — able to hold technical conversations with PhD researchers and client stakeholders alike
- Italian native or fluent; professional English required
Benefits
- RAL : €65'000 to €80'000
- Project bonuses: awarded on delivery and client impact (min 4 projects / year)
- Year-end bonus: awarded for team performance
- Annual salary review
- +10% salary progression at each career level
- Transports allowance
- A brand new MacBook Pro M5 14”
- Once a year, the whole team flies to Dublin for a 3-day offsite at our HQ
- 20 days of paid holiday per year, 8 public holidays, and 104 hours of additional permitted leave per year
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