About The Position
Join anzel - The AI for the business of sport. Clubs, leagues and federations hold deep commercial knowledge, but most of it sits in spreadsheets and in the heads of a few experts. anzel turns that knowledge into finished work: sponsor ROI reports, pitch narratives, pricing analyses, partner fit assessments. Sports business experts who have done this work in sport write the skills in plain language. Agents do the work over a knowledge base those experts have checked. Nothing reaches a customer until it passes its tests. Think of anzel as an experienced senior colleague who has done this many times before. The role In this role you own the platform every anzel agent runs on, and you set its architecture: what we build, what we buy, what we retire, written down so people and agents work from the same decisions. At anzel, AI writes most of our code and engineers guide it, so you build alongside a small senior team, close to the customer. The hard part isn't the demo. It's making agents dependable for many customers at once: correct answers, each customer's data kept separate, and work you'd trust with a real sponsorship deal.
Requirements
- Eight or more years building and running production software, or the equivalent built on your own.
- Real backend depth, APIs, a relational database, queues, long running workflows.
- Experience with language model products that real users relied on; ability to discuss failures and changes made.
- Experience with retrieval that works and agents beyond a demo.
- Judgment to know when an agent is the wrong tool.
- Experience with evaluations that proved whether a change helped, and distrusting a passing test until you know what would make it fail.
- Experience coding agents every day, several at once, without shipping code nobody understands.
- A security mindset from running systems that held customer data.
- Something you've built that you can show us.
- Professional English.
Nice To Haves
- German is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Own the platform every anzel agent runs on, and set its architecture.
- Build alongside a small senior team, close to the customer.
- Make agents dependable for many customers at once: correct answers, each customer's data kept separate, and work you'd trust with a real sponsorship deal.
- Define the harness: how a skill written in plain language becomes a reliable agent, including tools, orchestration, long running work that resumes after a failure, memory and context, retrieval, structured output, model routing, fallbacks and rollback.
- Manage models and providers behind our own interfaces, to avoid vendor dependency.
- Define the tool layer our agents use, which tools each agent gets, how they're versioned, and how access is scoped and logged per customer.
- Ensure safe agents and separate data, working with the head of engineering on infrastructure, security and compliance.
- Implement systems for quality in the pipeline, with evaluations run on every change.
- Ensure every run is traced, with the cost and time of each piece of work visible.
- Manage the engineering system, continuous delivery, review with coding agents doing the first pass, and releases that roll back in minutes.
- Lead by building, with clear decisions and fast, kind reviews.
Benefits
- Own the platform of a new product, with real customers from day one.
- A small senior team, almost no bureaucracy, your own machine and your own choice of tools.
- The work matters, it helps sport close better deals, price with confidence and put more money back into the game.
- Startup energy with backing, supported by XU Group's experience and network.
- A strong package, highly competitive pay that reflects the seniority and responsibility of the role.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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