Head of Engineering - Mira powered by Your Own Circle
Pubblicato il 30-08-2026 - Your Own Circle in Mantova
UK / Remote within EU (CET)
⏱ Starting part-time until pilot stage
Full-time salaried from pilot stage onward
Initial equity-based role (vesting-based)
Path to CTO as the company grows
We're looking for our Head of Engineering — a hands-on engineer who codes, architects, and leads from the front, with a genuine route to CTO as we scale.
Not an advisor. Not a manager-from-a-distance. The person who will sit in the codebase with us, set the technical direction, lead a small team of 2–3 engineers, and personally get this product to demo and into production with real companies.
About Your Own Circle & Mira
We're building Mira — the People Operating System for hospitality. One platform that runs the entire employee experience across a hotel group: daily operations (SOPs, checklists, rotas, training), wellbeing (anonymous feedback, mood, recognition), HR & compliance (policies, e-signatures, documents, GDPR-grade audit trails), performance (KPIs and goals), and an AI colleague woven through all of it, supporting frontline staff, managers, HR, and executives 24/7.
It's built multi-tenant from the ground up: organisation → property → department → team, so a single group can run every hotel from one system, with the right people seeing the right data and nothing more.
Our mission is simple: make hospitality a place people want to stay, not leave, by turning culture, wellbeing, and operations into measurable business outcomes — lower burnout and turnover, better communication, and higher guest satisfaction.
We've validated the concept with strong interest from top-tier hotel groups and are moving into pilot launches.
This is a real product, not a slide deck. There's a working multi-tenant platform already built. Your job is to take it the rest of the way — harden it, scale it, and make it production-ready for hospitality pilots,
to an investor- and enterprise-grade bar.
What you'll do
- Own engineering end-to-end: architecture, delivery, quality.
- Stay hands-on — write and review production code daily, not just direct it.
- Lead and grow a small engineering team (2–3 developers): set the bar, review PRs, unblock, mentor.
- Drive the product from MVP → demo-ready → production launch with our pilot hotels.
- Own the things that matter for B2B trust: multi-tenant isolation, security, GDPR/privacy, AI safety, reliability.
- Work alongside our external advisory development partner, who provide technical guidance.
- Partner with the founding team on product and technical decisions.
Path to CTO
This is a Head of Engineering role today with a real route to CTO as the company grows. We're not dangling a title — we'd rather someone earn it by shipping, leading well, and proving it out with us than hand it over on day one. If you want that seat, this is how you get to it.
What you'll work with
- Backend: Node.js / NestJS (modular monolith), PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, multi-tenant row-level security.
- Frontend: React (Vite), TypeScript, mobile-first.
- AI: LLM-powered assistant with retrieval over company SOPs/data (RAG), tenant-scoped and privacy-first.
- Infra: AWS (CDK / ECS Fargate), CI/CD, security & compliance gates.
Who you are
- Senior full-stack engineer who has shipped and scaled real production SaaS, ideally multi-tenant B2B.
- Entrepreneurial mentality — you think like an owner, take initiative without being asked, and are comfortable building in ambiguity.
- Genuinely hands-on, and stay hands-on by choice even while leading.
- Experience building with LLMs / AI in production (RAG, model APIs, prompt/eval, AI safety), not just experimenting.
- Comfortable owning security, data privacy (GDPR), and architecture for a platform enterprises will trust with their people's data.
- Has led a small team and raised the engineering bar: code review, testing, delivery discipline.
- Startup DNA: high ownership, fast, pragmatic, thrives with ambiguity.
Premio
- Hospitality, HR-tech, or wellbeing/people-analytics domain experience.
- Mobile (frontline/low-connectivity) and offline-first thinking.
- Prior founder / early-stage experience.
The offer — please read this carefully
We want to be completely straight about how this works, because getting it wrong wastes everyone's time:
- Meaningful equity, vesting-based with a cliff.
- Part-time and equity-only until pilot stage. There is no salary in this phase.
- Converts to a full-time salaried role from pilot stage, once revenue sustainably covers the engineering team's payroll or on a funding round. The whole engineering team converts together.
- Full ownership of the technical direction, and a clear path to CTO.
We'll discuss specific numbers openly on a first call.
This role isn't right for you if
- You need a salary from day one — completely understandable, but we can't offer that yet.
- You want to lead without building.
- You're waiting to be told what to do.
If you read "hands-on, lead a small team, take a real product to production with hotels" and felt pulled in, let's talk. Tell us one thing you've personally built and shipped that you're proud of.
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