Product Engineer, Platform

At Callimacus, we're working to change how people interact on the web. For the past 30 years, the user experience as we know it has been anchored to a typographic paradigm — predefined navigation trees of pages, sections, and menus — established in the Nineties when the web was born.

As the way people get informed, entertained, and shop evolves, traditional websites and interfaces are losing relevance, and the tools available limit the creative evolution of digital experiences. Callimacus was born from the conviction that the whole web experience can and should be reinvented.

So we built the engine for a different kind of digital experience. Callimacus is a multi-agentic platform that plugs into a company's existing stack and reads multi-dimensional signals to understand what a visitor wants in the moment. Then, in milliseconds, our proprietary technology composes the entire interface around that intent, selecting the most relevant content and components as the person interacts.

Callimacus was founded in 2024 with the early backing of Brunello Cucinelli — one of our first investors, and now one of our customers. We launched in January 2026 to strong organic interest from enterprise customers, and recently raised from Salesforce Ventures the largest AI investment they have made in Italy, and one of their most significant in Europe.

We are a small, product-focused, founder-led team. We work on hard problems that haven't been solved before — by us or anyone else — and the people who join now get to solve them. We move fast, with high agency and strong ownership.

You'll join a small senior team at the point where the platform's foundations are still being set. Callimacus is in production with demanding customers, and the architecture, the performance envelope, and the shape of the developer experience are all still yours to influence. Decisions you make in your first months will still be load-bearing in three years.

• Set the architectural direction. Lead the design and implementation of the core backend services and APIs that power complex, multimodal AI workflows — making deliberate trade-offs between flexibility, performance, and what will still be maintainable two years from now.
• Own performance end to end. Across services, databases, and infrastructure. Design systems that scale gracefully under growing load, and find the bottlenecks, failure modes, and technical risks before production does.
• Architect the cloud footprint. Design and evolve our AWS infrastructure — ECS, RDS, S3, ALB — with reliability, security, and cost efficiency treated as one problem rather than three. Docker-based deployments, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Design the data layer. Data models and access patterns across relational and analytical stores (Aurora, ClickHouse), ingestion pipelines, and long-running analytical workloads — with informed calls on consistency, throughput, and cost at scale.
• Raise the reliability bar. Monitoring, alerting, and logging standards on Datadog and CloudWatch. Lead incident analysis and post-mortems, and turn production issues into permanent improvements rather than patches.

These are the same for every role at Callimacus. We hire people who get the job done and care about the end result — the product, the experience, the people using it.

• Ownership. You feel deeply responsible for your work and behave accordingly — from design through production and after. You don't wait to be told what to do; you see problems and act. “It's not my job” is not part of your mindset.
• Invention. You light up at hard problems and are creative at finding solutions. You experiment, get your hands dirty, and land things. You hold very high standards and always look for ways to improve.
• Team-oriented. You're someone others can count on. You support the best idea even when it's not yours, disagree productively, give and take feedback, share credit, and take on unglamorous work when that's what the team needs.

The craft bar for this role: Strong TypeScript and Node.js — async, concurrency, API design — with a track record of building and scaling production systems where performance, reliability, and data volume were daily constraints.

We're early, and nobody is strong in all of these — we don't expect you to be. Depth in two or three, plus curiosity about the rest, is what wins. If that's you, apply even if you don't tick every box.

• AWS architecture and infrastructure as code
• Relational and analytical stores at scale (Aurora, ClickHous