Head of Engineering/CTO

The role

The Head of Engineering will own technology across Labhouse. This hands-on, full-stack role involves managing apps, backend and infrastructure, security, data, and AI integration.

What you will do

• Own technology across Labhouse
• Redesign core backend services
• Harden security and rethink user data handling
• Ship AI features into new apps
• Manage new product launches, performance, and reliability
• Manage core services, cloud architecture, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Protect users and the company through security and data privacy
• Manage data pipelines and acquisition and performance data
• Integrate AI models and automate workflows
• Hire engineers and build teams from scratch

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, or a related technical field
• Strong full-stack profile with real hands-on depth across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
• Proven track record of owning technical projects end to end across product, infrastructure, security, data, and AI
• Experience building and launching new products (0 to 1) and scaling them (1 to 100)
• Hands-on experience designing cloud infrastructure and improving performance and reliability for large user bases
• Solid understanding of security, data privacy, and data infrastructure
• Experience integrating AI models and building automations
• Exceptional learning speed
• Experience hiring engineers and building teams from scratch
• Ability to set technical architecture, standards, and practices
• Good level of spoken and written English

Nice to have

• Spanish is a Plus
• Experience as an early engineer or tech lead in a startup that scaled fast
• Background in subscription-based mobile apps or consumer products
• Hands-on mobile development experience (Flutter is a plus)

Benefits

• Remote work from anywhere in Spain
• Flexible working hours
• Permanent contract with a competitive compensation package
• High-end equipment for your development
• Young and top entrepreneurial team in a dynamic startup environment
• Opportunity to lead, grow, and take on big challenges
• Work with cutting-edge technologies

About the company

Labhouse is a Barcelona-based startup studio building AI-powered mobile apps. It was founded by Andrés Bou and Horacio Martos, the duo behind SocialPoint.