Founding Head of Engineering

We're building what engineering looks like after AI.

Not by adding AI tools to traditional workflows, but by rebuilding the way software is designed, built, and shipped from first principles.

Senvo 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.

We're looking for a founding technical leader to build that future with us.

This is not a management role. It's a builder's role.

It'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.

You'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.

If you've been looking for the opportunity to build an engineering organisation from first principles rather than inheriting one, this is it.

Tasks

Rather than simply leading engineers, you'll build the engineering organisation itself.

Over your first 12-24 months you'll own:

• Own the platform. Shape the evolution of Senvo's auditing platform around agentic workflows, modern backend architecture, and AI-native software development.
• Define 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.
• Set 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.
• Build an exceptional engineering team. Hire outstanding engineers, coach them, and set an uncompromising quality bar.
• Define 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.
• Increase engineering velocity. Own the metrics that matter. Continuously improve quality, speed, reliability and developer leverage.
• Make high-conviction technology decisions. Decide what we build ourselves, what we buy, and where AI fundamentally changes how software should be built.

What success looks like

• During your first year you'll:
• Ship the next version of our auditing platform, built around AI-native workflows.
• Establish the engineering o