• Lead and grow an AI engineering group (30+ engineers) - backend, ML, DevOps, and QA profiles. • Define architecture standards for LLM-based products: RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, tool use, evaluation frameworks. • Set the bar for production-grade AI systems: observability, cost control, latency, safety, and reliability. • Oversee the full lifecycle of AI systems - from prototype to production and beyond. • Drive the adoption of AI-powered developer tooling across Netguru teams (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, prompt engineering workflows). • Build playbooks, run workshops, and lead by example - engineers should feel empowered, not replaced. • Measure adoption impact using DORA/SPACE metrics and human signals (developer experience, cycle time, rework). • Build a library of reusable AI practices scalable across 100+ projects. • Be the technical voice in deal reviews for AI/GenAI opportunities. • Provide fast, reliable architecture options, risk assessments, and effort estimates - even for unknown domains. • Challenge unrealistic scopes and propose alternatives that win trust and close deals. • Build Netguru's AI/GenAI competency roadmap - stacks, reference architectures, integration patterns. • Grow Tech Leads who can own AI workstreams independently. • Build communities of practice around LLM engineering, prompt engineering, and AI evaluation. • Monitor team health: velocity, code quality, morale, rework rate, CI/CD, test coverage.

• Lead the Fintech engineering domain through a mixed team structure • Partner closely with Product Managers to support new payment capabilities • Work closely with Finance stakeholders to improve finance flows • Provide technical leadership across the domain • Drive execution across multiple services and teams • Support the team in balancing feature delivery and technical improvements • Coach, mentor, and support growth of engineers and managers • Contribute to domain planning and roadmap definition • Ensure domain services are reliable, secure, scalable, and well-operated • Promote effective collaboration across engineering, product, and finance teams

• Lead and develop high-performing engineering teams, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence while championing the adoption of modern software development best practices • Empower teams to design and deliver scalable, reliable systems while promoting modern engineering practices and strong architectural thinking • Act as a servant leader by coaching, mentoring, and supporting autonomous teams in solving complex technical and organizational challenges • Partner closely with product leaders to shape product vision, translate business problems into technical solutions, and deliver measurable customer and business value • Drive execution and delivery across large cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders • Balance speed and quality by managing trade-offs between rapid delivery, system scalability, and long-term technical sustainability

We are looking to hire ambitious entrepreneurs to start and scale their own startups. We are serial entrepreneurs, for example Paul Müller (founder Adjust, €1.2B exit) and Petter Made (founder SumUp, €8B) who are eager to support outlier personalities and serial entrepreneurs to build €1B+ companies. Our offer: - A salary while you build your startup as you will directly be employed by us. Alternatively, you can opt for up to €500k in funding. - 1:1 sparring with unicorn founders on a weekly basis - Community: Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors - Team building: Hiring top notch talent supported through our network (over 50,000 professionals) - Distribution: Support in reaching product-market-fit and building up a sales force / marketing machine - Funding support for securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months (on average, EWOR Fellows raise > €2M after our Grand Pitch) One of our fellows set a record for Europe’s largest pre-seed round by a first-time founder, securing a €12M pre-seed investment. Tasks - You will own, build, and run your startup in fields such as Logistics - You will embark on an extensive personal development journey crafted by unicorn founders and follow a fully customised programme enhancing your goal, time, and energy management - You will receive support in hiring through our network to over 50,000 professionals and advice as well as best practices from serial entrepreneurs - You will receive intensive coaching to make your startup ready to raise millions in funding - You will iterate your product with us until having reached product-market-fit and receive support in building up a sales force or creating a marketing engine respectively Requirements - You are based in Europe or the Americas or open to relocate - You are willing to take full responsibility for your own startup and scale it to €100M+ in revenues - You have excellent communication skills in the English language Join us and build a €1B+ company with us!