Lead Engineer

Spotr is building the AI Asset Planner for housing providers, combining portfolio data with computer vision, LLMs and agentic systems to help housing corporations plan maintenance, retrofit and investment at scale. It's live across the NL, UK, Ireland, Canada and Poland, and the decisions it powers move billions in investment and real quality-of-life outcomes. They're hiring their first Lead Engineer to take over from a fractional CTO. It's a hands-on role (~60% hands on coding) owning the technical direction of the platform and coaching a small, senior team. What you'll do Own the architecture behind the AI Asset PlannerDesign data flows that tame messy customer data (Excel, APIs, databases) and country-specific compliance logicIntegrate AI in production: reliability, guardrails, token costs, evalsMake the hard trade-offs: speed vs. quality, AI vs. rule-basedSet the bar for how the team solves problems, and coach senior engineers You'll fit if you have 8 to 12 years building at startups / small teamsDeep data architecture + system design, and you still code dailyProduction LLM experience (hallucination, guardrails, evals)Built systems from zero and made the calls that matteredComfort with ambiguity (pre-PMF) and a genuine pull toward AI + dataReact + Python Nice to have: geospatial data, AWS serverless (Lambda, EventBridge, Postgres), data-intensive dashboards. The details The Hague, hybrid (2 to 3 days/week in office)Permanent up to 130k depending on experienceSmall senior team (ex-game dev, computer vision, ML) with high ownership and fast feedback loops Interested, or know someone who'd be perfect? Drop a comment or DM me. 👇