Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

ALOHAS; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Autonomy & ownership

Flexible working hours

Summer intensive hours

Barcelona office & home setup

Mental-health support

Employee discounts

Zusammenfassung

ALOHAS is seeking its first full-time CTO to own technology end to end. You will drive vision, architecture, and platforms spanning Shopify, Odoo, data, and AI agents. A hands-on leader, you’ll split time writing code and shaping the team and product direction, in a Barcelona-based hybrid environment.

You will work closely with the CEO/COO to keep ALOHAS at the frontier of an AI-native, data-driven operation, balancing speed with scalable, well-governed engineering practice.

Qualifikationen

• Led engineering at high-growth product companies and owned technology end-to-end.
• Hands-on and modern: cloud-native, API-first, event-driven systems, capable of getting into the details.
• Recent AI/LLM experience—agents, RAG, production deployments.

Aufgaben

• Set the technical vision and architecture for a multi-entity EU/UK/US business.
• Own AI-native strategy and orchestration across platforms and teams.
• Oversee Shopify, ERP (Odoo), data, and logistics integration in an omnichannel system.
• Build and lead a small, high-leverage engineering team with governance and testing.

Kenntnisse

Engineering leadership

Cloud-native

AI/LLM in production

Shopify/ERP exposure

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

CI/CD

Jobbeschreibung

ALOHAS isn't just a footwear brand — we're proving fashion can be made differently. Every pair is produced on demand, so we only make what's truly wanted, cutting overproduction and waste out of the equation from day one.

Working at ALOHAS means being part of the growth of a fast-moving Spanish start-up, with a young, creative team that communicates fast and works with real energy. It's demanding — but the kind of demanding that teaches you something new every week, in an environment where sustainability isn't a policy, it's just how we live.

In a nutshell, we love what we do and it shows!

THE ROLE

At ALOHAS we're building an AI-native company. Technology isn't a support function — it's the foundation of how the whole business runs: product, brand, growth, finance and operations.

We're hiring our first full-time CTO to own our technology end to end — vision, architecture, the platforms that run the business (Shopify, Odoo, data, AI agents) and the team that builds them.

We care far more about how you think, build and lead than about your title. Staff or Principal Engineer, a CTO at a small company, or an engineering lead who never stopped coding, at a product company (marketplace, SaaS, e-commerce), and you’re ready to own technology end to end and make it yours — this is for you. If you’ve spent the last few years leading through managers rather than building, this probably isn’t the right seat.

Hands-on role: you will spend roughly half your time writing code, and the other half setting direction and growing a small team. We’re not looking for someone who directs from above — we’re looking for someone who builds alongside the team and answers for what ships. You’ll lead a lean internal team plus our AI Software Crafter and specialized partners. You'll work hand in hand with the CEO and COO (who builds business logic hands-on with AI tools) and keep ALOHAS at the frontier of an AI-native way of operating.

A note on language: our team works in Spanish day to day — stand-ups, docs and decisions all happen in Spanish. Professional working proficiency is a requirement for this role, not a nice-to-have. The role is based in Barcelona, hybrid, two to three days a week in the office.

YOUR CHALLENGE

1. Set the technical vision & architecture. Own a clean, modular architecture for a multi-entity, cross-border business (EU/UK/US). Make the calls on build vs. buy vs. partner, and keep complexity low.

2. Go deep on AI-native. Own the AI agent strategy and orchestration (LLMs, MCP, tool integrations). Turn experiments into production systems that move real business metrics — not demos.

3. Own the platform that runs the business. Shopify (e-commerce, retail, marketplace), the B2B/wholesale stack, and their integration with Odoo ERP, data and logistics — a genuinely omnichannel, event-driven system.

4. Make data a strategic asset. A reliable, centralized data platform (GCP/BigQuery, modern ETL) feeding analytics and decisions across B2C, B2B and Retail.

5. Build and lead the team. Structure and grow a small, high-leverage engineering team; enable the AI Software Crafter and partners; set a delivery-driven culture with light, effective governance (standards, testing, CI/CD, sensible tech-debt management).

YOU WILL ROCK AT THIS ROLE IF...

• Have led engineering at a high-growth product company — as a Senior EM / Eng Director / Staff+ — and are ready to own technology end to end.

• Are hands-on and modern: cloud-native (GCP ideally), API-first / event-driven systems, solid data architecture — you still get into the details.

• Have real, recent AI/LLM experience — agents, RAG, LLMs in production — not just an interest in it. This is the single most important thing.

• Think product-first: you optimize for user and business impact, not tech for its own sake.

• Scale through others: you build, but you also grow people and orchestrate partners.

• Fashion / retail / e-commerce and Shopify / ERP exposure is a strong plus (not a hard requirement).

• Are pragmatic and frugal — clarity over complexity, simplicity and resilience over gold-plating.

• Are based in Barcelona (hybrid) and fluent in English and Spanish.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• A unified, reliable stack across B2C, B2B and Retail, with clean Shopify ERP finance/logistics integration.

• AI genuinely embedded in how the business operates — agents and automations delivering measurable impact.

• Trustworthy, automated data flows powering decisions.

• A small, high-performing team shipping steadily, with low tech debt and transparent tech costs.

• ALOHAS recognized as a digitally mature, data-driven, AI-native global brand.

WAYS OF WORKING

• Full-time, hybrid, with regular presence at our office in Barcelona.

• Close, ongoing collaboration with the CEO, the COO and the AI Software Crafter.

• Impact-driven, with a strong bias toward enablement over control.

BENEFITS

• Freedom, responsibility & trust — real autonomy and ownership.

• Flexible working hours.

• Summer intensive hours (July & August).

• A company with soul: sustainability, family-life balance, parenthood, gender equality and diversity.

• Mental-health support + two paid "disconnect days" a year.

• Up to 70% employee discount (family & friends too).

• Creative office in Barcelona + home-office setup.

• Growth & learning support and monthly after-work events.

Ready for the challenge?

About ALOHAS Apply to work with us: careers.alohas.com/jobs Our website: alohas.com and IG: @alohas