Head of Engineering / CTO

Location : Barcelona (WeWork Glories)

Team : Engineering

Type : Full-time

Top engineering excellence and a transformative personal journey!

The Role

Acai Travel is revolutionizing the travel industry by empowering leading Airlines, Online Travel Agencies (OTAs) and Travel Management Companies (TMCs) with cutting-edge AI agentic solutions. We are rebuilding the travel industry with agentic software.

Acai's founders previously sold an AI company to American Express GBT, value for your equity is a guarantee!

Acai Travel ($4.5M raised, VC-backed) needs a Head of Engineering / CTO who owns customer relationships while scaling our technical team. As our CTO focuses on strategic growth, you'll lead 8-15 engineers in 2025 and be the central point of contact and value delivery of the company. You will work closely with our two founders (CEO and CPTO).

In just few months, we've grown from 3 clients ($15K MRR) to 10 clients ($80K MRR) at 30% monthly growth. You'll own our most complex customer accounts while mentoring our engineering team.

If that wasn't already amazing, this is best part : our culture is very grounded in cognitive behavioral theories and the principles of Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, fostering an ego-less approach to problem-solving and emotional stillness.

We consider the company as a playground to become better individuals, we do a lot of work on self-awareness and re-programming of our reality into whoever you want to become. You will be transformed into a more empowered, joyful, and inspiring individual. Guaranteed!

What You'll Do :

Customer & Sales (40%)

• Own strategic enterprise accounts - customers know you by name
• Lead technical sales calls and close complex deals
• Present technical solutions to C-suite prospects
• Partner with Founding Product Leader on customer strategy and delivery
• Take over technical sales so our CTO can focus strategically

Technical Leadership (60%)

What We Need

Technical + Customer Skills :

Leadership Style :

Why Join

Proven founders - Team previously sold AI company to American Express GBT, equity value guaranteed

Hypergrowth rocket ship - 30% monthly growth

Rare dual-impact role - Drive both technical excellence and customer relationships that fuel growth

Personal transformation - Zen / Buddhist-grounded culture focused on self-awareness and empowerment

Significant equity - Meaningful ownership in category-defining AI travel startup

Epic perks - Barcelona base, world-class off-sites, strategic customer travel

Location & Benefits

Barcelona, Spain - In-person in the office. Travel required for strategic customers all over the world.

Competitive salary + significant equity, private health insurance, office perks, epic company off-sites (Mallorca, Italian Alps, Bangkok, Spanish Pyrenees).

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